A DNA test could prove the one thing that decades of grainy
videos, mysterious footprints and unverified eyewitness accounts
haven’t — the existence of Bigfoot.

Bigfoot researchers in California say they’ve obtained startling
evidence, and are now trying to raise money for genetic testing on
an oil residue purportedly left behind by the elusive hairy beast.

AOL Weird News has obtained exclusive photos taken recently by
forensic expert Mickey Burrow, who examined the evidence, and those
photos are available here for the first time.Lee Spiegel
AOL Weird NewsThe Huffington Post

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Bigfoot or bear? Impression left on the driver’s side window of a
pickup truck owned by Jeffrey Gonzalez. The bizarre image was left by an
alleged Bigfoot in California’s Sierra National Forest over Memorial Day
2011. DNA samples of the impressions will eventually determine the
identity of the animal responsible for them.

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Close-up of the “paw” print image. The impression was reportedly
left by Bigfoot on the window of a pickup truck in the California Sierra
National Forest over Memorial Day weekend 2011.

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Bigfoot or bear? Pictured is a second impression left on the rear
side window of the same truck from the previous slides. According to
forensic/law enforcement photographer Mickey Burrow, “What you’re seeing
is a swipe mark. It looks like a small hand, swiping to the left,
leaving another impression, and there’s hair within those areas — you
can see where the hair would be.”

At a press conference today in Fresno, Calif., the Sanger
Paranormal Society reached out to the public to help come up with
the needed funds to pay for a thorough analysis of DNA from an
alleged Bigfoot creature.

Sanger founder Jeffrey Gonzalez presented photographs taken of
strange impressions left on the windows of his pickup truck that was
temporarily abandoned in a snow storm when he and several others
were on a Bigfoot expedition over Memorial Day weekend in
California’s Sierra National Forest.

When the men returned to retrieve Gonzalez’s truck, they were
startled to discover the window markings — including a large
paw-like image — and what they first thought was evidence of hair on
two of the truck windows.

Gonzalez called in forensic/law enforcement photographer Mickey
Burrow, who has spent 14 years as a qualified court photographic
expert and crime scene processor.

“I immediately started wondering if there could be some DNA left
behind, because if this thing put its face on the window, I thought
there was probably DNA on there,” Burrow told AOL.

“I’ve got the know-how. I’ve done it more than 5,000 times on
crime scenes. In this case, I treated it like it was a vehicle that
got burglarized.

“As I was looking at the windows, I told Jeff it looked like
something came up to the truck, rubbed up against it, swiped along
the side of it, and then just put its face up on the window and
looked in — that’s what it looks like.”

Burrow photographed the images left on the truck windows and
collected some DNA swabs. While Gonzalez suggested one of the
impressions shows a hand print, Burrow isn’t convinced.

“I’m very iffy on it. To me, it looks like a paw print,” he
explained. “I don’t think it was a primate or a biped, because it
looks too much like a paw. But then again, we don’t know what
Bigfoot is.

“I was just looking at what I could find off the truck. I didn’t
find any hair or blood or prints, so we really don’t know what we
have that touched it. We don’t know if it’s a bear or a Bigfoot or a
mountain lion.”

Bigfoot is a legendary tall, hairy ape-like creature that has
somehow defied capture and identification. Also known as Sasquatch,
Abominable Snowman and Yeti, it supposedly lives in heavily forested
or snow-capped mountainous regions of the world.

While most scientists deny Bigfoot’s existence, decades of huge
numbers of eyewitness reports, pictures and films have kept the
legend alive.

Previous attempts to analyze potential Bigfoot DNA haven’t
resulted in anything that could be considered as the scientific find
of the ages. That’s why Gonzalez is being very careful about who
he’ll turn over his reported Bigfoot DNA to.

“We need somebody to come forward to take this DNA and get it
mapped,” he told AOL. “Since nobody knows what a Bigfoot is, there’s
no available DNA for it. But by testing this DNA, by process of
elimination we can find out if it was a bear, gorilla, baboon or
something else.

“If it’s not any of those, and you’ve eliminated all the
possibilities, and it’s not human, then what’s left?”

Burrow is looking for an objective, science-based truth.

“I would like to just find out, because it’s got my interest
piqued,” he said. “I believe Bigfoot exists, but I don’t believe it
has mystical powers like many people say it does. I think it’s just
an unknown species that hasn’t been discovered or hasn’t fully
evolved.”Lee SpiegelAOL Weird NewsThe Huffington Post

TTHE INTERVIEW EXPLAINNING THESE PHOTOS AND DISCOVERY IS IN THE
ARCHIVES OF THE KEVIN SMITH SHOW AT:

I'm sitting on a white plastic chair in what
seems like total darkness. Strapped to my chest and shoulders is
an array of electronic gear--microphones, a video camera, a box
that detects magnetic changes and a Geiger counter. Somewhere in
the mix is a flashlight, the only device whose function I
understand, and thus, the only device I cannot find.

In front of me, I can almost make out the
sinister shapes of some truly spooky trees. Malevolent bugs are
buzzing in and out of my eyes and ears, and it occurs to me that
there must be a tavern open somewhere nearby, even in this remote
corner of Utah. One hundred or more yards away, beyond a
barbed-wire fence and a little creek, are my fellow paranormal
rangers, equipped with their own video cameras, night-vision
glasses and assorted scientific gear. They are supposed to be
watching me to see if anything happens.

On this night, I am the bait. Bait for what, I
wonder? The unspoken hope is my own inherent weirdness quotient
might give me some sort of connection to the undeniably odd
energy, or entity, that seems to have concentrated itself on this
remote rural community, and, in particular, on this small ranch
where I now sit, waiting for something to announce its presence.

Some very strange things have happened at the
precise spot where I'm sitting. It is here that a visitor was
accosted by a roaring but nearly invisible creature, something
akin to the Predator of movie fame. It is here that a Ph.D.
physicist reported that his mind was invaded, literally taken
over, by some sort of hostile intelligence that warned him that he
was not welcome. It is here that an entire team of researchers
watched in awe as a bright door or portal opened up in the
darkness and a large humanoid creature crawled out before quickly
vanishing. And it is here that several animals--cattle and
dogs--were mutilated, obliterated or simply disappeared.

For as long as anyone can remember, this part of
northeastern Utah has been the site of simply unbelievable
paranormal activity. UFOs, Sasquatch, cattle mutilations, psychic
manifestations, creatures that aren't found in any zoos or
textbooks, poltergeist events. You name it, residents here have
seen it.

Retired schoolteacher Junior Hicks is the area's
unofficial historian for all things weird. He's catalogued 400 or
so incidents, most of them involving UFO sightings, but says there
have been thousands of other cases. Hicks estimates at least half
of the 50,000 residents of this basin have seen weird things in
the sky--flying saucers, cigar-shaped craft, zigzagging balls of
light, so many different objects that local police and the Highway
Patrol long ago stopped taking reports. (Many of the lawmen have
been witnesses themselves.) Hicks and members of his family have
witnessed their own UFO events over the years.

"The UFO activity really started getting
intense in the early '50s," Hicks says. "There were
cases where the whole school and all the teachers saw these things
hovering over the town in broad daylight. In the '60s and '70s, we
probably had more UFO sightings than any place in the world."

But run-of-the-mill UFO events don't begin to
describe the rich array of unusual phenomena in this area. The Ute
Indian tribe has been here far longer than white settlers. Tribal
leaders are reluctant to speak to outsiders, but their oral
history is replete with examples of strange creatures and
sightings. Indian lore refers to some of these beings as
Skinwalkers. Other cultures call them shape-shifters, werewolves
or Bigfoot.

"The Utes take this very seriously,"
Hicks says. "They think the Skinwalkers are powerful spirits
that are here because of a curse that was put on them generations
ago by the Navajos. And the center of the whole legend is this
ranch. The Utes say the ranch is `the path of the skinwalker.'
Tribe members are strictly forbidden from setting foot on the
property. It's been that way for a long time."

The ranch in question is a 480-acre spread of
rich, well-watered pasture and a few thick patches of tall
cottonwoods. It's divided into three sections, each section being
a former homestead. Thick brush and a small river are on one side.
A rocky, picturesque ridge is on the other side. Skinwalker Ridge
is what the Utes call it, according to Hicks. A long dirt road is
the only way in or out of the ranch.

When rancher Tom Gorman (not his real name)
bought the place in 1994, it had been vacant for seven or eight
years. Gorman, his wife and two kids were curious about the
impressive array of bolts that covered the doors and windows of
the main house. There were deadbolts on both sides of the doors.
Even the kitchen cabinets had bolts on them. And at both ends of
the house, iron stakes and heavy chains had been installed. Gorman
guessed the previous tenants had positioned large guard dogs in
the front and back of the home, but he had no idea why.

The Bulletproof Wolf

On the day the Gormans moved their furnishings
onto the property, they had their first foreshadowing of the
events that would follow. They spotted an extremely large wolf out
in the pasture. The wolf cautiously made its way across the field,
and, to the surprise of everyone, sidled up to the family, acting
like it was a familiar pet. It had rained that day, and the family
remembers the wolf smelled like a wet dog as they were petting it.

After a few minutes, the wolf strolled over to
the corral and grabbed a calf by its snout, attempting to pull it
through the corral bars. Gorman and his father began beating on
the wolf's back with sticks but it wouldn't release the calf.
Gorman grabbed a .357 Magnum from his truck and shot the wolf at
point-blank range. The slug had no noticeable effect.

Gorman pumped another bullet into the wolf,
which then let go of the calf but stood looking at the family as
if nothing had happened. Gorman shot it two more times with the
powerful handgun. The big animal backed off a bit, but showed no
signs of distress, not even any blood.

The mystified rancher retrieved a hunting rifle
and shot the wolf again, once more at close range. Gorman is not
only an experienced marksman but a big-game hunter of considerable
repute. Five slugs should have been enough to bring down an elk,
let alone a wolf. The fifth shot caused a chunk of hair and flesh
to fly off the wolf, but it still didn't seem fazed. After a sixth
shot, the wolf casually trotted across the field into a muddy
thicket. Gorman and his father tracked the beast for about a mile,
following its pawprints through the mud, but the tracks suddenly
ended, as if the wolf had simply vanished into thin air.

Returning to the corral area, Gorman examined
the chunk of wolf flesh and says it looked and smelled like rotten
meat. He made inquiries among his neighbors, but no one seemed to
know anything about any tame, over-sized wolves in the area. A few
weeks later, Mrs. Gorman encountered a wolf that was so large, its
back was parallel with the top of her window as it stood beside
her car. The wolf was accompanied by a dog-like animal that she
couldn't identify.

Over the next two years, a menagerie of weird
animals was reported by family members and neighbors. While
driving into the ranch on a bright afternoon, Gorman and his wife
saw something attacking one of their horses. They described it as
"low to the ground, heavily muscled, weighing perhaps 200
pounds, with curly red hair and a bushy tail." It somewhat
resembled a muscular hyena and seemed to be clawing at their
horse, almost playing with it. Gorman got within 40 feet of the
animal but says it literally vanished before his eyes. Poof. Gone.
They checked the horse and found numerous claw marks on its legs.
(A few months later, the wife of a deputy sheriff reported seeing
a similar muscular, reddish beast running across the property.)

Another visitor to the ranch had a more ominous
encounter in the middle homestead, the same place where I was set
out as bait. The visitor, along with Gorman and his son, say they
saw a large blurry "something" moving through the trees.
The visitor has been meditating when this thing showed up. It
swiftly moved from the trees, across the pasture, covering 100
yards in seconds, and when it reached the man, it let out a
ferocious roar, something akin to a large bear, a roar loud enough
to be heard hundreds of yards away. But this was no bear. It was,
according to the Gormans, nearly invisible, resembling the
camouflaged being in the movie Predator. The visitor was so
scared, he grabbed on to Gorman and wouldn't let go. He left the
ranch and has never returned.

Other creatures and beings were also seen,
including exotic, multicolored birds that were certainly not
native to the region and could not be identified. There were
numerous close encounters with dark, nine-foot-tall beasts that
resembled a Bigfoot or Sasquatch. (More on those incidents will
follow.)

As if those visual experiences weren't enough,
the family claims its other senses were also challenged by
assorted weird events. They often were overwhelmed by strong musk
odors. The pastures would unexplainably light up at night like a
football stadium. They claim to have seen shafts of light that
seemingly emanated from the ground, They (and others) say they
heard what sounded like heavy machinery operating under the earth.
And they heard voices. Tom, his son and his nephew remember
hearing a loud, disembodied conversation in some unintelligible
language. The disembodied male voices spoke in what the witnesses
say was a mocking tone and sounded like they were emanating from
20 or more feet above their heads, but they saw nothing. The dogs
accompanying the three witnesses growled and barked at the voices,
then took off in a panic.

There were physical manifestations that aren't
easily explained. While checking on his herd in the third
homestead, Gorman noticed that someone had dug up his pasture.
Hundreds of pounds of soil had been scooped out of the ground. The
edges of the hole resembled perfect, concentric circles, as if
someone had dropped a gigantic cookie cutter on the pasture.
Several smaller scoop marks were also found.

The Gormans also report phenomena similar to
crop circles. One formation found in their pasture consisted of
three circles of flattened grass. Each circle was approximately
eight feet in diameter, and they were arranged in a triangular
pattern, with each circle about 30 feet from the others. Keep in
mind, there is only one road leading into the ranch. Anyone coming
in or going out would almost certainly be noticed by the Gormans
or their neighbors.

UFOs And Other Aerial Oddities

In the spring of 1995, the Gormans started
seeing strange things in the sky. While out checking on their
cattle, Gorman and his nephew spotted what they thought was a
recreational vehicle parked on the property. They approached it,
figuring the driver might be having mechanical trouble. As they
got closer, the RV moved silently away from them. They moved
closer, it moved further away. They climbed a fence to get a
better look at it, and that's when they knew this was no
Winnebago. The craft rose above the treetops and slowly flew away,
making no sound as it departed. It certainly wasn't a helicopter.
The witnesses had a clear view and say the object was shaped like
a refrigerator, with a single light on its front and a red light
on the back.

Before long, everyone in the family was seeing
weird aerial objects. Mrs. Gorman says something that resembled a
stealth fighter, but ringed with blinking disco lights, silently
hovered about 20 feet above her vehicle before zipping off. Each
family member had repeated sightings of a cloud that usually
hovered just outside the property. The cloud was characterized as
having "blinking Christmas tree lights" or "silent,
mini-explosions" inside. Among the other aerial craft seen by
the Gormans, their neighbors and other witnesses were classic
flying-saucer objects, flying sombreros, shafts of light similar
to fluorescent light bulbs and a cigar-shaped craft several
football fields long.

By far the most common objects they witnessed
were floating spheres of different sizes and colors. In 1995 and
1996, the Gormans and others reported 12 separate incidents of
seeing large orange circles flying over the trees of the center
homestead. Tom Gorman claims that holes occasionally opened up in
the orange spheres and other smaller spheres would fly out. (A
neighboring rancher told this reporter of his own encounters with
what he called a flying orange basketball.)

By early 1996, the sightings of blue spheres at
the ranch became almost commonplace. These orbs were said to be
about the size of a softball, made of glass and filled with
bubbling blue liquids that seemed to rotate inside. Mr. and Mrs.
Gorman say that in April 1996, they watched one of the blue orbs
repeatedly circle the head of one of their horses, The horse was
illuminated by an intense blue light, and there was a sound like
static electricity in the air, but this wasn't ball lightning. The
orb seemed to be intelligently controlled. When Gorman approached
the horse with a flashlight, the orb darted off, maneuvering
through tree branches with speed and dexterity.

The Gormans say the blue spheres seemed to
generate severe psychological effects on the family. Family
members felt waves of fear roll over them, far in excess of what
might be normal, whenever the blue orbs appeared. It was the
appearance of one blue orb in particular that finally convinced
the Gormans to sell the ranch.

One evening in May 1996, Gorman was outside with
three of his dogs when he noticed a blue orb darting around in the
field near the ranch house. Gorman urged his dogs to go after the
ball. The dogs chased and snapped at the orb, but it dodged and
maneuvered enough to stay just beyond the reach of their snapping
jaws. The ball led the dogs out across the pasture and into the
thick brush that borders the field. Gorman says he heard the dogs
make three terrible yelps, then they were silent. He called for
them, but they didn't respond.

The next morning, Gorman went to look for the
dogs. What he found were three round spots of dried and brittle
vegetation. In the middle of each circle was a black, greasy lump.
Gorman surmised that his dogs had been incinerated by something.
One thing for sure, the dogs were never seen again. The
disappearance of their dogs prompted the Gormans to think about
getting out.

Mutilations And Other Animal Mysteries

Tom Gorman wasn't some country-bumpkin farmer
trying to get by. He had college degrees and advanced training in
animal husbandry, was considered an expert in artificial
insemination and had plans for raising hybrid, high-end stock at
the picturesque ranch. His herd, which ranged from 60-80 head,
consisted of expensive, top-of-the-line heifers and four
2,000-pound show-class bulls.

From the day he moved his herd onto the ranch,
though, his hopes--and his animals--seemed to be under assault.
The balls of light that were seen so often on the property seemed
to take special interest in the cattle and were often seen buzzing
around the heads of the animals. Sometimes, the cattle would react
violently, the herd splitting suddenly as if some invisible force
was plowing through their middle. It soon got worse.

Although the Gormans kept close watch on their
stock, something began exacting a terrible toll. One cow was found
dead in a field. A strange, crisp hole had been cut in one of its
eyes. There were no tracks or blood, and Gorman wondered what
could do such a thing. He noticed a strong musk odor around the
carcass, a smell he would come to know all too well.

Other cattle were carved up, as if with pinking
shears. Cattle mutilations have been reported throughout North
America for several decades. In typical cases, the ears, eyes,
udders and sex organs are removed with surgical precision.
Gorman's animals were subjected to all of the above.

As an experienced hunter and rancher, Gorman was
more than familiar with the capabilities of natural predators.
This wasn't being done by coyotes or mountain lions. The butchery
was simply too clean. And no blood was ever left at the scene of
the attacks. His other animals also suffered. His favorite horse
had its legs slashed, as if by sharp instruments or claws. (The
musk odor was still in the air when he discovered the damaged
horse.) His dogs seemed to develop paranoia. They stayed inside
their doghouses for days at a time, too fearful to emerge for
food. Six of the family's cats vanished in one night.

Soon, cattle started disappearing altogether.
One of the animals vanished from a snow-covered field. Gorman saw
the hoofprints lead into the field, but the tracks simply stopped,
as if the animal had been plucked from the sky. A 1,200-pound cow
leaves tracks in snow, Gorman told himself, so what happened to
this one?

In all, 14 of Gorman's prized animals were
either sliced up or vanished. In one instance, a cow was found
mutilated just five minutes after Gorman's son had checked on it.
Something cut a hole, six inches wide and 18 inches deep, in the
animal's rectum. The cored-out section extended into the cow's
body cavity, yet there was no blood on the cow or on the
snow-covered ground.

The loss of 14 expensive animals from an 80-head
herd is extreme by any standards. (There were other losses as
well, but from explainable causes.) It meant that Gorman was close
to financial collapse. One April afternoon, Gorman and his wife
took a quick drive to town for supplies. As they passed the corral
that contained their four bulls, they commented to each other that
they would really be in trouble if something should happen to one
of the bulls.

When they returned to the ranch less than an
hour later, all four of the bulls were gone. The Gormans began a
frantic search for the missing behemoths but couldn't find a
trace. As a last resort, Gorman decided to peek into a metal
trailer that is situated inside the corral. He thought it highly
unlikely that the bulls would be inside because, from the corral,
there is only one door into the trailer and it was secured with
thick metal wire, wire that clearly was still in place.

Gorman was shocked to see that all four of his
bulls were inside the trailer, squeezed like so many oversized
sardines into the tiny enclosure, crammed in against the sides of
the trailer and against each other. When he yelled to his wife
that he had found them, the bulls seemingly woke up, as if from a
dream state, and started kicking the hell out of the trailer and
each other.

"There is simply no way that anyone could
coax those four bulls into that trailer," says Colm Kelleher,
a microbiologist who would come to know the Gormans well. "It
would be tough enough to get one of them into the trailer, but all
four? Virtually impossible. The only door leading from the corral
into the trailer was still securely fastened with wire. And there
were cobwebs on the inside of the door, proving that it had not
been opened. It's almost as if someone overheard the ranchers'
worries about their bulls, then decided to mess with them."

NIDS To The Rescue

Kelleher didn't realize it back in 1996, but the
Gorman ranch was to soon become his home away from home. Kelleher
is the deputy administrator of NIDS, the National Institute for
Discovery Science, a Las Vegas-based research organization founded
by local businessman Robert Bigelow. Bigelow's long-standing
interest in paranormal topics, including UFOs, animal mutilations
and human consciousness, prompted him to assemble an impressive
team of physicists, engineers, psychologists and other
doctorate-level professionals for the purpose of investigating
subjects that are largely shunned by mainstream science.

By the middle of 1996, the Gormans were ready to
cash in their chips. Those who know Tom Gorman say he blamed
himself for the weird string of events that had ruined his
ranching operation. He didn't want to give up but felt cursed, and
was ready to bail for the sake of his family. In an
uncharacteristic moment, he told parts of his story to a news
reporter. A respected journalist from Salt Lake City heard about
it, came to the ranch and talked to the family. Pictures were
taken, and a wire service picked up the story. That's how Bob
Bigelow first learned about the ranch.

Bigelow and his team flew to Utah and introduced
themselves to the Gormans. NIDS staffers checked out the story,
interviewed neighbors and evaluated the Gorman's seemingly
incredible tales. Bigelow offered to buy the ranch outright with
the idea of transforming it into an interactive paranormal
laboratory, an ongoing experiment that might shed some light on
questions that have been viewed with scientific skepticism.
Amazingly, he talked the Gormans into staying at the ranch as
caretakers.

By that point, the family was a wreck. The UFOs,
balls of light, cattle mutilations, animal disappearances, Bigfoot
sightings and Skinwalker legends were bad enough, but there had
also been an ongoing series of more personal events. Things had
occurred within their home that had made a normal life impossible.
They saw apparitions in the house, blinding lights, dark creatures
peering in the windows. Furnishings, tools and everyday items
moved around, disappeared or turned up in unusual places.

No one could sleep. When they did manage to grab
a few hours, they were plagued by violent nightmares, often
discovering later that different family members had experienced
identical dreams. The two kids, honor students before arriving at
the ranch, saw their grades plummet. Mrs. Gorman lost her job at a
local bank because of her repeated absences and disturbing
water-cooler tales. Hoping for safety in numbers, the Gormans
slept each night on the floor of their front room.

The folks from NIDS offered moral, emotional and
financial support to the Gormans. What's more, they had a plan.
The ranch presented what appeared to be a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to legitimately study a full menu of paranormal
activities. They endeavored to seal off the ranch, pack it with
high-tech monitoring equipment, staff it round-the-clock with
trained observers, and see what happens.

Some residents sarcastically wondered what the
hucksters from Las Vegas really had in mind. A scam of some sort
was one oft-mentioned possibility. UFO buffs whined that Bob
Bigelow was a "shadowy" guy who may or may not have CIA
connections and that he was out to somehow corner the market on
E.T. They demanded that whatever happened at the ranch should be
made immediately available for their evaluation. And paranormal
debunkers predicted the NIDS team would come up empty-handed
because unexplained events inevitably wither under careful
scrutiny.

As it turned out, all three groups were wrong.
NIDS did seal off the ranch from outside observers but not for any
monetary gain. Neither the CIA nor any other government agency had
any input or access to the things that have occurred under the
NIDS watch. And the phenomena itself did not wither or evaporate.

For the past six years, events at the ranch have
been under constant scrutiny. Witnesses, including highly
accomplished scientists and law enforcement personnel, have
documented a mind-boggling array of unusual activity. But there
has been a near-total blackout on the release of any information
about the site.

By agreement with Bigelow, this reporter was
granted the first outside access to the ranch and to the
scientists and ex-lawmen who've been studying it. Interviews were
conducted with ranch personnel, as well as with community members
who had reported unusual events. And several nights were spent out
on the ranch itself, watching for odd lights or other
manifestations.

No one who has studied this can say with any
certainty what's going on here. The NIDS researchers are not
making any claims about E.T.s or ghosts or Skinwalkers. They are
merely collecting data and trying to make some sense of it. That
is small comfort to me as I sit in the darkness on my little
plastic chair, waiting for something to happen. The mind certainly
can play tricks in such an environment, but could so many
witnesses be completely wrong?

Next week: We'll examine a long litany of
bizarre activity that occurred while the NIDS team was stationed
at the ranch, including the shooting and tracking of an unknown
creature, the destruction of electronic equipment by something
unseen, the unexplained creation of "ice circles" and
the opening of what some say is a portal to another dimension.

Warning to paranormal enthusiasts: Do not travel
to the ranch. You are not welcome there. It is private property
and the people who live on or near it don't want to be hassled by
curiosity seekers or the media. What's more, the level of
unexplained phenomena has taken a steady nosedive over the past
several months, so chances are you wouldn't see anything even if
you could get on the property.

This is the second of two reports about
persistent stories of anomalous phenomena in a section of
northeastern Utah. The activity, as reported by hundreds of
witnesses over several decades, includes UFOs, unusual balls
of light, animal mutilations and disappearances, poltergeist
events, sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures and other
unidentified animals, physical effects on plants, soil,
animals and humans, and a vast array of other unexplained
incidents.

The activities seem most concentrated on a
480-acre cattle ranch owned by the family of Tom Gorman.
(Gorman isn't his real name.) In 1996, the ranch was
purchased by Las Vegas businessman Robert Bigelow, who
arranged for an intense, ongoing scientific study of events
at the ranch. By agreement with Bigelow, and at the request
of many of the witnesses, a few names have been changed or
omitted to protect those who don't want to be hassled by
media outlets or UFO enthusiasts.

It began as a dull white light, appearing
out of nowhere in the darkness of the middle homestead of
the Gorman ranch. Tom Gorman saw it. So did a researcher
named Chad Deetken. It was nearly 2 a.m. on Aug. 28, 1997.
Gorman and Deetken were out in the pasture as part of an
ongoing effort to document unusual activity on the property.
Both men watched intently as the light
grew brighter. It was as if someone had opened a window or
doorway.

Gorman grabbed his night vision binoculars to get a
better look but could hardly believe what he was seeing. The
dull light began to resemble a bright portal, and at one end
of the portal, a large, black humanoid figure seemed to be
struggling to crawl through the tunnel of light.

After a few minutes, the humanoid figure
wriggled out of the light and took off into the darkness. As
it did, the window of light snapped shut, as if someone had
flicked the "off" switch.

Deetken had the presence
of mind to snap a few photos of the event, but would later
learn that his film had recorded little of what the two men
had witnessed.

Tom Gorman, his wife, two teenage kids and
several extended family members had grown accustomed to
weird things happening at the ranch. They had seen numerous
UFO-type craft, as well as balls of light that seemed to be
intelligently controlled.

Their neighbors had seen them too.
Residents of this basin have been reporting similar
phenomena since the '50s. Native Americans say the sightings
extend back even further. But aerial anomalies weren't the
strangest occurrences on or near the ranch, not by a
longshot.

In his two years on the property, Tom
Gorman had lost 14 head of cattle from his hybrid herd. Some
animals simply disappeared, as if plucked from the sky.
Others were carved up with surgical precision. Family
members and neighbors had also seen Bigfoot-like creatures,
oversized wolves, animals and birds that no one could
identify. Their horses had been attacked, their dogs
incinerated, their cats abducted.

The Gormans themselves were bedeviled,
almost daily, by odd little household incidents that,
separately, wouldn't amount to much, but when considered
together, were hard to dismiss. Windows and doors in their
home would rip open or slam shut, seemingly on their own.
Frequently, when Mrs. Gorman would take a shower, she'd
emerge from the tub to find that her towel and personal
items had been removed from inside the locked bathroom. On
one occasion, she returned from town with a large haul of
groceries and other supplies. She carefully put the
provisions away in various cabinets, walked into another
room for a few minutes, and returned to find all the
supplies back out on the kitchen table.

Clothing, tools and appliances seemed to
develop lives of their own. But this wasn't the equivalent
of socks disappearing in the laundry. For example, Gorman's
son worked up a considerable sweat to meticulously stack a
one-ton pile of cord wood on the south side of a treeline in
the middle homestead. He took a 30-minute water break and
returned to find that the ton of wood had been moved 100
yards to the north side of the tree line. Tools often
disappeared, then reappeared on the range. In one instance,
a heavy post hole digger vanished. It was finally
discovered, days later, high up in the branches of a
cottonwood tree, as if placed there by a crane. The uneasy
feeling grew among family members that they were constantly
being watched, but they had no idea who, or what, was doing
the watching.

Enter Robert Bigelow and NIDS

Las Vegas businessman Robert Bigelow first
heard about the Gorman ranch in the summer of 1996. A small
newspaper article about mysterious events at the property
prompted Bigelow and his team to fly to Utah. Bigelow bought
the ranch and convinced Tom Gorman to stay on as caretaker,
against the wishes of his family.

Bigelow is the founder of NIDS, the
National Institute for Discovery Science, a Las Vegas
research organization dedicated to the study of unexplained
phenomena.

NIDS staff members include highly trained and
educated scientists, engineers and former law enforcement
personnel with solid credentials, degrees and experience.
Although the organization investigates seemingly bizarre
events, it has no preconceived ideas about the true nature
of the subject matter and is primarily interested in getting
to the truth, wherever that truth leads. (This observation
is a personal one, based on more than six years of
interaction with the NIDS organization.)

NIDS staffers emphasize that they are
constantly drilled by Bigelow and by his Science Advisory
Board to rigidly adhere to the scientific method. ("The
Science Board really holds our feet to the fire," one
staff member confides.) Because the subject matter itself is
so controversial in science circles, NIDS realizes that any
deviation from the scientific method would mean a loss of
credibility. If they were deemed a crackpot organization,
their findings, no matter how profound or well-documented,
would be dismissed out of hand.

The Gorman ranch presented a unique
opportunity to study a rich tapestry of strange stuff. It
was as if someone had ordered up the Weirdness Pizza With
Everything on It. UFOs and Sasquatch, balls of light and
cattle mutilations, poltergeists and crop circles, psychic
manifestations and Native American legends--the ranch
sounded like a unique place in all the world. NIDS staffers
knew they had to be careful but also knew they couldn't
merely dismiss the stories told by locals.

"We had no preconceived ideas about
what was going on, but we decided to use an 'open-filter'
approach to gathering information," says one senior
NIDS staffer. "We had a lot of reservations about the
legends of skinwalkers, Bigfoot sightings, all the things
the family claimed to have seen, but we decided to collect
all the data we could get, without dismissing it outright,
and figured we could evaluate it all later."

The NIDS team set up shop. They installed
a command post, positioned video and other monitoring
equipment around the ranch, built new fencing around the
perimeter of the property to better control access to the
site, constructed observation posts in the pastures and
staffed the property with trained observers. The effort
constitutes the most intense and thorough surveillance of a
UFO hot spot ever undertaken.

UFO researchers were incensed at being
excluded from the study. They floated rumors that Bigelow
was working for the CIA, that he and NIDS were already in
contact with E.T., and that whatever information was gleaned
from the ranch probably would be locked away in dark vaults
under the Pentagon. The constant criticism prompted the
publicity-shy Bigelow to grant a rare interview. He told a
Utah newspaper that NIDS was not communicating with either
extraterrestrials or lizard people. He appealed, perhaps in
vain, for a reasonable amount of time, free from outside
interference, so a legitimate study might be undertaken.

"We know so little in terms of what
the overall scope of the phenomena are that it's just
embarrassing to try and make some conclusions at this
point," Bigelow said. He admitted that the activity at
the ranch seemed to be "selective in how it exposes
itself and to whom," suggesting that a tailgate-party
atmosphere where people sit around outside the ranch,
barbecuing hot dogs while awaiting flying saucers, would
not be conducive to a scientific study. Not surprisingly,
this plea for sanity fell on deaf ears among the UFO
faithful. They were so busy expressing their outrage over
being barred from private property that they failed to grasp
the major clue dropped by Bigelow during his interview.

A pre-cognitive intelligence Contrary to some predictions, the odd
phenomena at the ranch didn't evaporate under the glare of
scientific scrutiny. Activity continued, but grew even
harder to comprehend. NIDS staffers saw the same balls of
light, even UFO-type craft that the Gormans had seen. But
their attempts to photograph or videotape the sightings were
largely futile. Team members, accompanied by Gorman and
former lawmen who were hired for the study, often saw
anomalous aerial phenomena, with their eyes, their
binoculars and with night vision equipment. With few
exceptions, though, the images inexplicably could not be
recorded on film or video.

A confidential report prepared for NIDS
board members and obtained by this reporter documents dozens
of encounters involving NIDS staffers, the Gormans and other
witnesses.

After several months of round-the-clock
surveillance, a mind-boggling pattern began to emerge. The
phenomena, whatever they represent, seemed capable of
anticipating the moves of the scientists. If they placed
extra cameras and personnel in the southern field, the
activity would pop up in the northern pasture. If they
concentrated their observations in the center homestead, the
activity might move to the ridge overlooking the ranch.

Skeptics might suggest that such an
explanation for a lack of photographic evidence sounds a
little too convenient. But something happened on July 19,
1998, that sheds further light on the challenge faced by the
research team. Soon after arriving at the ranch, NIDS had
installed three telephone poles in one of the pastures. Atop
each pole was a sophisticated package of sensoring
equipment, including multiple video cameras. The cameras had
a full view of that section of the ranch and were connected
to video recorders back in the command post. At exactly 8:30
p.m., the three cameras on the westernmost telephone pole
were suddenly disabled. When NIDS staffers went to check out
the problem, they saw that something had shredded their
electronic equipment. Wires had been ripped out of the
cameras with considerable force. Plastic brackets were
snapped in two. Thick layers of duct tape that had been used
to secure the equipment had been ripped away. A foot-long
piece of TV cable was missing. Analysis of the remaining
cable showed it had been slashed with a knife.

Team members excitedly returned to the
command center, knowing that the telephone pole that had
been assaulted was in full view of cameras positioned atop
the second pole, located about 200 feet away.

The assumption
was that, whatever had ripped the guts out of the first
camera would be clearly visible on video recorded by the
second. But when they rolled the tape back, they saw
nothing. At the exact moment the first camera package was
being vandalized, nothing visible could be seen anywhere
near the second telephone pole.

This incident set a pattern
for what was to follow. "I came up with a term for it,"
says Col. John Alexander, a retired Army intelligence
officer who still works on classified projects with Los
Alamos National Laboratory and remains an adviser to NATO
organizations. "I called it a pre-cognitive sentient
intelligence. It certainly seemed to be intelligent, and it
seemed to know what we were going to do even before we did
it."

Alexander is a former adviser to NIDS who
made the trip to the ranch to see what was going on. As a
scientist and military insider, he is reluctant to jump to
any conclusions about the nature of what has happened there.
But he suspects, after exploring the property and reading
the witness reports, that there is an intelligence behind
the assorted phenomena and that it almost seems to be
playing a game with those who are trying to observe it.

Another NIDS staffer arrived at a similar
conclusion. He has a doctorate in physics, a long list of
peer-reviewed papers about cutting-edge scientific concepts,
and a lengthy employment history with prominent think tanks
and classified military programs. He asked that his name not
be used in the belief that he would never again be hired for
sensitive scientific work if his involvement with the ranch
were made public.

"It's a very messy affair. Nothing is
clear cut. It isn't as simple as saying that E.T.s or flying
saucers are doing it," the scientist said. "It's
some kind of consciousness, but it's always something new
and different, something non-repeatable. It's reactive to
people and equipment, and we set up the ranch to be a
proving ground for the scientific method, but science
doesn't seem amenable to the solution of these kinds of
problems."

Ice and dinosaurs

As if to punctuate the point, the
phenomena at the ranch seemed to constantly evolve. One of
the most recent incidents occurred on a cold morning in
February. The caretaker for the property was patrolling the
grounds early in the morning. As he walked past a watering
hole, he noticed an odd circular impression in the thin ice
that had formed overnight. Something had carved a perfect
circle in the ice. The circle was just under six feet in
diameter and seemed oddly reminiscent of the crop formations
seen in English wheat fields.

The cuts extended only a quarter-inch into
the ice and the ice itself was perhaps another quarter-inch
thick. The question arises, how could this have been done?
Someone standing on the muddy bank would have left
footprints. The only prints were cattle tracks. The ice
itself was so thin that it could support almost no weight
and certainly would have cracked and broken if someone stood
on it. Could someone have suspended themselves above the ice
patch and then somehow carved a perfect circle? How, and
more importantly, why? NIDS staffers, following the
scientific method, collected and analyzed ice shavings from
the spot, took readings for magnetic fields and EM
radiation, checked for tracks throughout the area but found
no clues. There is no natural explanation for such a subtle
event, and it has never been reported again.

NIDS employees compiled a confidential
report containing information about all the assorted
incidents on the ranch. Reading this report will make the
hair stand up on your neck. To date, the researchers have
recorded seven distinct incidents involving magnetic
abnormalities. Simply put, their compasses went nuts while
out on the range. The needles of the compasses either spun
out of control, or pointed straight down at the ground. No
one has a reasonable explanation. There were several instances involving
some sort of invisible force moving through the ranch and
through the animals. One witness reported a path of
displaced water in the canal, as if a large unseen animal
was briskly moving through the water. There were distinct
splashing noises, and there was a foul pungent odor that
filled the air but nothing could be seen. A neighboring
rancher reported the same phenomena two months later.

The
Gormans say there were several instances where something
invisible moved through their cattle, splitting the herd.
Their neighbor reported the same thing.

Of all the strange incidents at the ranch,
this one may take the prize. It occurred on the night of
March 12, 1997. Barking dogs alerted the team to something
lurking in a tree near the ranch house.

Tom Gorman grabbed a
hunting rifle and took off in his truck toward the tree. Two
NIDS staffers followed in another vehicle. Up in the tree
branches, they could make out a huge set of yellowish,
reptilian eyes. The head of this animal had to be three feet
wide, they guessed. At the bottom of the tree was something
else. Gorman described it as huge and hairy, with massively
muscled front legs and a doglike head.

Gorman, who is a crack shot, fired at both
figures from a distance of 40 yards. The creature on the
ground seemed to vanish. The thing in the tree apparently
fell to the ground because Gorman heard it as it landed
heavily in the patches of snow below. All three men ran
through the pasture and scrub brush, chasing what they
thought was a wounded animal, but they never found the
animal and saw no blood either. A professional tracker was
brought in the next day to scour the area. Nothing.

But there was a physical clue left behind.
At the bottom of the tree, they found and photographed a
weird footprint, or rather, claw print. The print left in
the snow was from something large. It had three digits with
what they guessed were sharp claws on the end. Later
analysis and comparison of the print led them to find a
chilling similarity--the print from the ranch closely
resembled that of a velociraptor, an extinct dinosaur made
famous in the Jurassic Park films. (For the record, no one
at NIDS is saying he shot a velociraptor. They don't know
what it was.)

More cattle deaths

Two days before the above incident,
another animal was found mutilated on the ranch, and it is
the only case from the ranch that NIDS has publicly
confirmed before this article. Gorman and his wife spent a
bright Sunday morning tagging the ears of newborn calves.

They put a tag on the ear of a calf born near the ranch
house, then wandered out into the pasture for a period of 45
minutes. In that interim period, with the Gormans only 200
yards away in the pasture, the calf was completely stripped
of flesh.

The Gormans were alerted by a wail from the mother
of the calf. The calf's entrails had been placed, almost
ritualistically, on the ground, but all of its flesh was
simply gone, leaving only bone and hide behind. There was no
blood on the ground or on the animal.

A NIDS team was at the ranch and quickly
scoured the area for evidence. The remains were sent to two
pathology labs. Both pathologists concluded the calf had
been butchered by two distinct instruments, something like a
heavy machete and something like sharp scissors. How this
was done in broad daylight, in an open pasture and in clear
sight of the ranchers remains a mystery. (A second calf
disappeared that same morning after being tagged and was
never found. In all, 12 cattle have met a similar end since
NIDS has been on the ranch. A full report on the calf
incident can be found on the NIDS website.)

So, what's going on? Capt. Keith Wolverton spent more than 20
years as an investigator with the Cascade County Sheriff's
Department in Great Falls, Mont. In the mid-'70s, that area
experienced a similar wave of UFO sightings and cattle
mutilations, as well as Bigfoot sightings, and Wolverton
investigated them all.

"I asked my boss back then to give me
six weeks to solve the mystery," Wolverton says.
"It's 30 years later and I'm still left with a lot of
questions but no answers."

Wolverton wrote a book about his Montana
experiences. He came to the ranch to share his expertise
with NIDS, and while there are similarities between the
things that happened near Great Falls and at the Utah ranch,
Wolverton says he's never heard of any place with such a
concentration of weird activity as the Gorman ranch.
Microbiologist Colm Kelleher has reached a similar
conclusion.

"I thought that if we threw enough
personnel and equipment at this one, pull out all the stops,
adhere to the scientific method, that we would probably get
answers," Kelleher says.

"We have all of these
strange cases, close to 100, many of them well-documented,
but if you try to call that scientific evidence of anything,
you'd be laughed at."

The main reason NIDS has been unwilling to
go public with information about the ranch is there isn't
much that can be said. For a scientific organization to
merely toss out a lot of scary stories would be
counterproductive, especially if it resulted in hordes of
UFO nuts flooding the property and interfering with whatever
goes on there. Make no mistake, the activity at the ranch
certainly seems to have an interactive component. It
responds to people, events and disturbances. In many
instances, it seems capable of anticipating things that were
about to happen.

"The only thing that jumps out of the
data is how unreproduceable these things are," Kelleher
notes. "No two events ever repeated themselves in the
same fashion. It's almost as if it's a learning curve and we
were being led along. It's the only thing consistent
here."

What could possibly explain all that has
happened at the ranch? Natural predators, rustlers or
pranksters might conceivably be responsible for some of the
events, but certainly not all of them. NIDS staffers
considered the possibility that Indian shaman or black magic
practitioners might have been carrying out some sort of
ritualist campaign at the ranch. They note that the Ute
people consider the ranch to be an unholy place, a forbidden
place, but that explanation falls far short on many levels.

Hardcore UFO believers have proposed an
E.T. connection to events at the ranch, but NIDS staffers
say there isn't an iota of evidence to prove such a
hypothesis. The possibility exists that unknown military
units might be capable of producing nearly all of the events
that have been reported in the area, perhaps as an
experiment in psychological warfare. (Tom Gorman was
convinced of this for a long time, but came to realize the
theory was more than a stretch. Someone, somewhere would
have seen these military men operating in such a rural
area.)

That doesn't leave much. There is one
possibility that's worth considering. Cutting-edge
physicists have proposed the existence of alternate
dimensions or parallel universes. Quantum physicists believe
that portals may exist between our world and other worlds.
The concept of wormholes is no longer considered to be the
stuff of science fiction. New York physicist and author
Michio Kaku theorizes that there are 11 dimensions in our
universe, although humans have only identified four. Might a
wormhole resemble the portal of light that was seen on the
ranch? And if such portals do exist, could they allow beings
on the other side to travel into our world? As wacky as it
all sounds, leading scientists believe that wormholes and
alternate dimensions are perfectly consistent with known
laws of physics. If so, then it isn't much of a leap to
suggest that UFOs, aliens, Bigfoot beings or other
creatures, even poltergeists or spirits, could come and go
and never be detected by puzzled, mystified humans.

"Aliens may be here now," says
Kaku, "here in another dimension, a millimeter away
from our own world."

Admittedly, it all sounds farfetched. But
if anyone has a better explanation, let's hear it.

A final note For further discussion of the Gorman Ranch
mystery, along with a few personal observations, check out
the Knappster column elsewhere in this issue. Also, the
website of the National Institute for Discovery Science is
packed with information and research papers concerning these
and other issues. Anyone with information or insight about
the ranch, UFOs or mutilations is welcome to contact NIDS
through the website. All such contacts will remain
confidential. Another word of warning to UFO diehards:
It is probably futile to ask for restraint on the part of
the faithful, but here goes anyway. Visitors are not welcome
at the Gorman ranch. The ranch is patrolled 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, and NIDS emphatically declares that
trespassers will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest
extent of the law. One of the principal caretakers of the
property is a 20-year veteran of Utah law enforcement and
will not hesitate to bust people who mess with the property,
the animals or the staff. The people who live in the area do
not want to be hassled. So leave them alone. Don't be a
jerk.

Furthermore, anyone expecting to find the
ranch and see UFOs or Bigfoot will be deeply disappointed.
Paranormal activity on the property has all but disappeared
over the past year, which is a primary reason that access
was obtained from NIDS for this article.

8-28-99 - I read this book with fascination. I had dreamed about meeting
a Sasquatch several years ago who was brought to my house to meet me. He
had a face that was longer in the jaw than the drawing on the cover of this
book, but otherwise very similar. In my dream, the Sasquatch smiled the whole
time he was with me.

Jack "Kewaunee" Lapseritis has investigated the Sasquatch for 40 years
all over the United States. He has conducted countless interviews and spent
weeks alone in the forest - quietly trying to communicate with them, rather
than hunt them.

In the summer of 1977, an elderly lady sat quietly reading a book on the
porch of her cottage in a densely wooded area in northern Wisconsin. Suddenly,
an invisible force sent the book from her hands onto the porch floor. She
heard someone laughing. At the edge of the forest stood the form of a huge
apelike creature with dark auburn hair all over it s body. This credible
lady continued to have telepathic conversations with the man-creature for
four consecutive summers and came to know him as Sasquatch!

The "Psychic Sasquatch" provides us with revelations about these gentle
creatures and the astonishing truth about their connection to extraterrestrials
and why they cannot be found. The Sasquatch consider themselves to be the
first "people" to populate this planet and they were brought here millions
of years ago by their friends, the Starpeople! There were bipedal human-type
creatures here at the time, but the Sasquatch considered them to be 'animals'
because they were so unevolved that they had not even yet discovered fire.The Sasquatch say that they are transported to new regions of wilderness
whenever hostile humans or developers enter the creature's immediate domain.
The Sasquatch insist that ET intervention occurred with all races of humans
and higher hominoid types. The Sasquatch also said that seven races of Bigfoot
have been seeded on Earth, with one race less than five feet tall and another
up to fifteen feet tall.

In 1985, a Sasquatch told Kewaunee that by 1990 the Earth, environmentally,
would be at a point of no return if we did not drastically change how we
treat each other and the environment. We could avert this disaster by drastically
reducing the global population and dramatically slowing down our exploitation
of natural resources. Then the present resources would better sustain a smaller
world population without depleting it to a life-threatening level. We are
at the very brink of some stupendous calamity - something that will strongly
landmark all of human history. Both the Starpeople and the Bigfoot creature
have talked about such catastrophic events occurring over the next few years.
Christians might label it Armageddon. The Amerindian tribes call it The Great
Purification. Because everyone and everything is cosmically connected, all
living organisms will be profoundly affected.

10-10-99 - Since I created this page, I have had a couple experiences
that rather unnerved me because it was unexpected at the time. I was sitting
outside watching the stars especially for meteors and satellites. While I
was sitting there in the dark, I could hear a cow bellowing and bellowing
about a quarter of a mile away. It went on and on and I wondered what was
wrong with it because it didn't stop and it wasn't the usual
time of year for giving birth. I had heard that sound before but not recently.
As I sat there, suddenly I heard loud grunting sounds behind the house low
to the ground. Because we had been studying the book, reading the other websites,
and dowsing a map that showed that Bigfoot was closeby, naturally I assumed
that one of the creatures was letting me know it was there. I didn't get
scared, but I have to admit I was nervous, so I got up slowly off my chair
and went into the house and locked the door. I've been outside at night since
then but haven't heard the cow bellowing, so I'm not worried about it for
now. I'll let you knowhere if I ever meet one. Dee

NOTE: Per Anna Hayes: In her recent book Voyagers (1999) the Quenventelliur
are large, long-haired beings which are ape-like, with great intelligence
and sensitivity. They work with the ETs both on board the ships and on the
ground to monitor earth's environment.

05/19/2010 9:31 PM | KSAX.com

Bigfoot: Alive and Living in Greater Minnesota?

They said they have received more than 75
reports of sightings, captured images, and Bigfoot footprints in
just three years. They're sharing their insight while sorting fact
from fiction as they take KSAX on the hunt for Bigfoot.

"I'm a skeptic of Bigfoot because I've trapped
this whole area and never, ever did we see any Bigfoot tracks or see
Bigfoot anywhere," William Tucker of Bena said.

Long time trapper William Tucker is anything but a
believer, but just miles away from Bena, mind boggling footprints
were found.

Each track was a bit different, different
pressures, different depths, eliminating the possibility of some
sort of footprint stamp.

This is just one of the things the co-founders of
the Northern Minnesota Bigfoot Society say confirms the fact,
Bigfoot is out there.

"I'm 110% convinced that it exists. There's just
too much evidence, too many people's emotions showing when they
recount their stories," Bob Olson, a co-founder of the Northern
Minnesota Bigfoot Society said. "One lady cries when she
recounts her story of how this thing stood up and looked at her. She
felt it looked into her soul."

Since 2006, Olson and Don Sherman have received
about 75 reports of similar Bigfoot sightings in Northern Minnesota,
some of which have been captured on camera.

The most recent was captured in Remer. Though to
some, the image may look like a man in a suit, a comparison with 6
foot 5 inch Bob Olson showed this man would have had to have been at
least 7 feet tall.

Sherman and Olson say "wood knocking" is just one
more way Bigfoot makes his presence known. Olson said Bigfoot
responded to him at Carey Lake when he knocked on a tree five times.

What about bones? One KSAX reader says, "I
believe Bigfoot is 100% real, as are a lot of the other creatures of
Cryptozoology. But i believe in their true form, they are spiritual
creatures, that manifest in flesh as they so desire. That is why we
will never find bones, or other such evidence of them."

On the other side of the coin, Olson says giant
bones belonging to Humanoid creatures were found in the late 1800's,
stretching 10 to 12 feet.

While there haven't been any Bigfoot skeletons
found, many trappers say they've never come across any bear, wolf,
or other large animal skeleton either.

Other signs Bigfoot exists include branches
plucked straight out of trees, strange looking shelters, and stick
men to warn other Bigfoot of humans in the area.

"When there's stuff that doesn't go away, there's
gotta be something to it and the evidence just keeps mounting up,"
Olson said.

For some Bena residents, the legend of Bigfoot is
far from a tall tale.

"I never seen it, but like I says I believe in
it," New Prague resident Leo Hinderscheid said.

"I don't know what to say Megan but I believe in
it and that's the way it will be," Helen Tibbetts of Bena said.

So, the hunt for Bigfoot continues.

If you've seen, heard, or
had some kind of Bigfoot encounter, Bob and Don want to hear about
it! You can reach them at 218-308-1451.

Hi Shine, think your idea about forwarding information about
Bigfoot is excellent. I've tried everything I know to do, and get
blocked at each turn. I will do a brief synopsis now:

To all concerned eco protectors,

My name is Karl Breheim. While engaged in mineralogical
research along the Rogue River in Oregon a few years ago, our
encampment began receiving "visits", from what turned out to be
Sasquatch.

Soon afterwards, we began discovering evidence of their
existence, tracks, spoor, odors, and finally, eyewitness examination
of them.

The locale they are in, was chosen by the Bush administation
to be clear-cut of old growth timber, trees which were hundreds of
years old, irreplaceable, and a major component of the thriving eco
system in place there for several millennium.

I and others, made several expeditions to this area, further
encountering these majestic creatures, and never feeling danger or
anything to fear from these gentle folk.

I spent thousands of dollars contacting leading scientists,
BLM and Forestry head men, Greenpeace, Jane Goodall, University Of
California DNA scientist Dr. Joy Halvorsen, presented evidence in
person to Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Great Ape and Bigfoot expert, who
assured me I had legitimate evidence, The Portland Institute, three
newspapers, Bill Clintons office in New York, and many more.

I worked with Joe Serres, environmentalist and lawyer in
Ashville, Oregon, presented evidence in person to him. The only
result was time passing along with no results.

I finally developed my web-site:
Savebigfoot.org., and packed it with evidence and a journal I
maintained throughout the years of expeditions to the Rogue River
area. I believe it to be imperative that people access this site to
learn all of the factors in the Bigfoot equation. The journal is
free for downloading, as are all photos and letters sent to major
players.

I am not making one cent from this. I am doing this for the
eco-system, the Bigfoot, and you and your children's children who
have the right to know of this, and what is happening to the eco
system.

Time Magazine reported in their Jan.2005 edition, of the
discovery of what they termed "The Congo Ape", discovered by a well
funded scientific group who obtained permission to overfly the
jungles of the Northern Congo. Their evidence and photos depict what
they termed, a missing link between monkeys and great apes. These
creatures walk and run upright, build beds on the ground, and hide
from discovery.

They are Sasquatch, in every measure of degree. They are the
exact creatures I reported to Dr. Meldrum and the news, including
the discovery of beds made on the ground, appearance, spoor
composition, etc, almost three years prior to this discovery in the
Congo jungle.

Lastly, the old growth timber being clearcut as I write this,
is being shipped to China continuosly on mega ships. The clearcuts
are conducted behind lock out gates, on the sides of mountains not
visible to aircraft routes or hikers. I have seen them with my own
eyes. I ask that anyone reading this report, please access my
web-site, and learn for yourself the details of what is transpiring
now. You can make a difference. You must...or we all lose.

Regards, Karl A. Breheim

Sasquatch Sighting At
Moricetown, British Columbia - March 8, 2009

Breaking News !

I just got off the telephone as a person called me to file a report of
something unusual that took place in Moricetown, British Columbia on
March 8, 2009. From what I was told there was some kind of loud sounds
coming from the back end of a person's property, this happening in the
dark hours. The person told another family member who was there the next
day about what took place and they went out back to check to see what
may have caused this commotion. The person arrived at the fence line and
did see where a Moose was present as tracks from it were visible. But,
what shocked them was seeing large
foot prints from
something. They appeared to be human in shape and hair was found in the
area as well. Also human like scat is in the area. Pictures of the foot
prints in the snow were taken.

Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research will be heading to the area
most likely tomorrow as I have to gather some things together.

On another note, I reported a Sasquatch sighting, or three sightings in
Moricetown, British Columbia I believe on January 1, 2008. I ended up
having no luck whatsoever talking to these folks who claimed to have
seen these creatures. Well I will be finally speaking to one of the
folks who had a run in with a
Sasquatch in
Moricetown while they were dropping a letter into a mail box. This
meeting is set up.

I will get everything posted when I get back and have time to write
everything up.

Protecting Bigfoot

Bigfoot investigator
Todd Standing discussed his
observations of large primate creatures,
which his team has videotaped in a
remote mountainous area. A kineticist
who analyzed some of the video footage
said that the creature moved faster than
any human could.

Standing believes these creatures are a
species known as
Gigantopithecus that are
primarily nocturnal and particularly
skillful at evading humans. Near their
"domicile," they use a "day watcher" to
keep an eye out while they are sleeping,
he reported. Standing is promoting a
petition to make Bigfoot a
protected species, and the Canadian
House of Commons is now considering it.

During the last hour of the 4-8-07 radio
show, "Bugs," a previous
guest of Art Bell, phoned in to go over his
account of shooting and burying two
Bigfoot back in the 1970's, in the Texas
Panhandle, while Standing reacted. The
creatures, which Bugs and a fellow
hunter initially thought were bears, had
reddish-brown hair, nose and eyes
similar to humans, and the female had
breasts. He estimated the male was 8˝
ft. tall and weighed around 500 lbs.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Authorities began searching the jungles of
southern Malaysia on Friday for the mythical "Bigfoot"
following a reported sighting of three giant human-like beasts,
officials said.

Wildlife authorities may set up cameras in the 309 sq.mile Endau Rompin
National Park in Johor state to see if the creatures do exist, they
said.

Park director Hashim Yusof ventured into the jungle Friday to survey the
site where three fish farm workers reportedly saw the beasts -- two
adults and a young one -- last month, Hashim's secretary told The
Associated Press.. She did not want her name used and declined to give
details.

The fish farm workers were in the jungle to clear an area for a fish
pond. They alerted their employer who photographed what appeared to be
footprints measuring up to 17 inches, said Lim Teong Kheng, the chairman
of the Malaysian Nature Society in Johor.

He said brown hair reeking of body odor was also reportedly retrieved
nearby, and a broken tree branch at the site appeared to indicate the
creatures were some 10 feet tall.

The New Straits Times newspaper on Thursday reprinted one of the
photographs taken by the fish farmer, showing what appears to be a
triangular depression in the undergrowth.

Lim welcomed the investigation by the national park saying
"Bigfoot" sightings have been reported for decades in the area
but never taken seriously for lack of evidence.

"Nobody dared say anything in case people say they are out of their
minds," Lim told the AP. "But sightings have been enumerated
by many others before this at the Endau Rompin area."

"Bigfoot" is a popular name given in the United States to
giant hairy creatures walking on two legs. Sightings of such beasts are
reported in many parts of the world but never confirmed.

JEFFERSON, Texas - Next to a lifelike replica of a giant ape head, the
believers milled around tables Saturday covered with casts of large
footprints, books about nature's mysteries and T-shirts proclaiming
"Bigfoot: Often Imitated, Never Invalidated."

While they can have a sense of humor about it, the search for the
legendary Sasquatch is no joke for many of the nearly 400 people who
came here to discuss the latest sightings and tracking techniques at the
Texas Bigfoot Conference.

"It's not a matter of believing, like faith, when you believe in
something you can't see," said Daryl G. Colyer, a Lorena
businessman who has investigated hundreds of reported Bigfoot sightings
in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

"It's a flesh-and-blood animal that just has not been discovered
yet. And I think we're getting closer and closer and closer,"
Colyer said.

Outlandish theories about the origin of Bigfoot abound, including that
it might be an extraterrestrial. Many believe that a towering, ape-like
creature descended from a prehistoric 9- to 10-foot-tall gorilla called
a Gigantopithecus, and that it now inhabits North American forests.

Hoaxes have been a large part of the making of the Bigfoot legend.
California construction company owner Ray L. Wallace donned 16-inch
wooden feet to create tracks in mud in 1958, and it led to a front-page
story in a local paper that coined the term "Bigfoot."

But there have been more than 2,550 seemingly credible Bigfoot sightings
reported in North America the past century, according to Christopher L.
Murphy's 2004 book "Meet the Sasquatch."

Murphy believes thousands more witnesses are too afraid of ridicule to
come forward.

"You see one of these things and it changes your whole perception
of reality," said Craig Woolheater, the office manager of a Dallas
company who co-founded the Texas Bigfoot Research Center in 1999, five
years after he said he saw a hairy creature walking along a remote
Louisiana road.

Colyer and others estimate that about 2,000 are in North America today,
reclusive nocturnal animals living in thickly wooded areas with
waterways, eating meat and plants and making nests out of trees and
brush.

Pictures and film footage are often disputed, such as the 1967 footage
of a creature walking near a California creek. Most evidence centers on
hundreds of casts of footprints collected since the 1950s.

Jimmy Chilcutt, a retired fingerprint analysis expert for the Conroe
Police Department, said many of the hundreds of prints he examined
belonged to a primate, but not a human, ape, gorilla or chimpanzee.

Like Chilcutt, other well-respected professionals have come forward to
say such evidence should not be dismissed.

"To me it's still an open question, but here's some evidence that
warrants some serious consideration, so give it a chance," said
Jeff Meldrum, associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho
State University who has studied more than 150 casts of footprints.
"This is not a paranormal question; it's a biological
question."

Coleman was keynote speaker at an exhibition of artwork inspired by his
quest for proof of mythological creatures.

The point of the Bates symposium, said the museum's director, Marc
Bessire, "is not to legitimize or de-legitimize cryptozoology, but
to find where it intersects with (art and popular culture)."

It's a hot topic at the moment. Though the art exhibit is relatively
small, popular culture is currently going cryptozoology crazy.

Coleman noted the television networks' fall prime-time lineup is
chockablock with shows such as Lost, Invasion and Surface, all of which
have cryptozoological themes running through them. He said in recent
weeks he has been busy doing hundreds of TV and radio interviews.

The media's renewed interest is partly due to the recent discoveries of
the "hobbit" remains on Flores Island in Indonesia and the
giant squid photographed by Japanese scientists, Coleman said. But
mythological creatures are also a diversion from the Iraq War, corrupt
politicians and the deteriorating environment.

Not everyone in the media takes Coleman seriously, however. Coleman told
the symposium's audience that he had to turn away a TV reporter because
he learned that the reporter worked for a comedy show that planned to
ridicule his research.

Cryptozoology has been taking its knocks since the discovery of
Neanderthal man in the 19th century.

Many mainstream scientists at the time insisted the remains of
Neanderthal were actually those of a sick or deformed human, said
Coleman.

But the greatest blow to cryptozoology came when Texas oil millionaire
Tom Slick, a major backer of Yeti expeditions in the Himalayas, died in
a mysterious plane explosion in 1962. "When that plane
exploded," said Coleman, "all of the funding for serious
cryptozoological research disappeared."

Like artists, cryptozoologists draw upon local legends and sightings of
fantastical creatures by fishers and hunters. Mainstream zoologists
typically laugh off these stories as superstition, Coleman said.
"Often it's a form of racism that causes scientists to reject these
stories," he said.

But such legends -- like those about a prehistoric fish, the coelacanth,
or the Indonesian hobbits -- sometimes turn out to be true, Coleman
said. And when that happens, these creatures leave the realm of
cryptozoology and enter zoology.

But zoology's gain can be art's loss. Artists sometimes take discoveries
of once-mythological creatures as a disappointment.

"I'm happy they've found the giant squid," said artist Sean
Foley, who is participating in the cryptozoology exhibition at Bates and
another at the Kansas City Art Institute. "But now I have to
fantasize about something different."

Coleman said he is comfortable with the liberties artists have taken
with his field of study, and does not see their work as damaging to
cryptozoology. He is more concerned with the influence pop-culture
movies can have on eyewitness accounts.

"Whenever I go to investigate a sighting," Coleman said,
"one of the first things I ask is, 'What's playing at the local
drive-in?'"

LEWISTON, Maine -- A Maine scientist is preparing to release details of
a $1 million reward for a photograph that leads to the live capture of
Bigfoot, the abominable snowman, or the Loch Ness Monster.

Loren Coleman, a professor at the University of Southern Maine, said the
bounty would be paid by an unnamed company and he plans to release more
details at a cryptozoology symposium at Bates College over Halloween
weekend. Cryptozoology is the scientific study of hidden, rumored, or
unknown animals.

''It's the time for something like this," Coleman said. ''Back in
the 1960s, hardly anybody was talking about this. Today, it's
phenomenal."

The mysteries surrounding these creatures have long been the subject of
debate.

Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is said to be a huge, hairy, humanlike creature
with long arms. The abominable snowman, or yeti, is a large, hairy,
manlike mammal reputed to live in the Himalayas. The Loch Ness Monster
is a dinosaur-like creature reputed to live in a lake in Scotland.

The $1 million bounty would be paid by a company to anyone who produces
a photograph that leads to the live capture of one of the three
creatures, Coleman said.

''We don't want people running around with guns trying to kill something
to get the money," Coleman said. ''It's not a contest, either. It's
a very specific bounty that depends on the permanent capture of a live
specimen, with emphasis on 'live.' "

Coleman, a cryptozoologist who is considered one of the world's leading
experts on Bigfoot, said he would release some details about the bounty
at a Bigfoot conference over the weekend in Texas. He is saving the rest
for Lewiston, where he will speak at the symposium on Oct. 28 on the
Bates campus.

The three-day symposium, to be held at the Bates College Museum of Art,
will focus on cryptozoology, science, and art.

''What we like about the subject is that there is such a fine line
between truth and fraud in the field, and that goes way back through
history," said museum curator Mark Bessire. ''We're looking at how
the possibility of these beasts becomes a part of the cultural
canon."

The event will include panel discussions about the science of fantastic
creatures and artistic interpretations of their stories. It will feature
two movies, including ''The Legend of Boggy Creek," a 1972 film
about an Arkansas town terrorized by a swamp monster.

Coleman said most sightings are hoaxes, mistakes, or misunderstandings.
But the $1 million reward is on the level, he said.

''The company that's behind this really understands the situation,"
he said. ''They understand the interest in the creatures and monsters
that are really out there and they are willing to step forward."

Bigfoot Sighting

A group of longtime Bigfoot hunters say the plaster casts (shown above)
were taken from prints found two weeks ago next to a logging road near
Clover Mountain, CA. The prints measure 15 inches long by 6 inches wide,
with a stride length of more than 5 feet.

"These have to be two of the most pristine prints I've ever seen, and
I've been in this business a long time," said Bigfoot hunter Tom
Biscardi, who also claims to have seen the beast on the April 5th.
2005 outing.

A group of longtime Bigfoot hunters say the plaster
casts (shown in the photo) were taken from prints found two weeks ago next
to a logging road near Clover Mountain, CA. The prints measure 15 inches
long by 6 inches wide, with a stride length of more than 5 feet.

"These have to be two of the most pristine prints I've ever seen, and
I've been in this business a long time," said Bigfoot hunter Tom
Biscardi, who also claims to have seen the beast on the April 5th outing.

According to Biscardi, he heard a rustling noise in the brush and turned
to watch as a "blurry blackness" rose from a squatting position
about 100 yards away. After a brief pursuit the beast disappeared into the
woods. "It walked upright like a man," said Biscardi. "It
wasn't a deer. It wasn't a bear. It was unbelievable

They call it Yeti in Nepal, Yowie in Australia and Sasquatch in Canada.
In Florida, it's called Swamp Ape, Skunk Ape, Stink Ape or Stink Man.
More plainly put, Bigfoot.

For one man, finding the creature has become like searching for the Holy
Grail, and he is teaming up with other believers the first week in
November for a field research class through Florida Keys Community
College. He hopes to bring back proof of its existence.

"I know it's there. I know it on several levels," said Scott
Marlowe, a founder of Pangea Institute in Winter Haven and instructor of
an online class in cryptozoology, the study of creatures that may or may
not exist, through Florida Keys Community College.

"Of all the species on Earth, man is presumed to be the only one
that has one example of its genus -- the only genus that has only one
species still alive. All other species have more than one."

Marlowe isn't the only one with faith that the creature exists.

Patricia Edwards of Lakeland has seen what she believes is the Swamp Ape
in the Green Swamp. Although her sighting was in the fall of 2002, it
was not until she read about another sighting that she decided to go
public.

It began when she was going to visit a relative in an Ocala hospital.
The morning was clear, and she was driving along Country Road 471, a
long, straight stretch of road through the Green Swamp. She said she saw
something less than half a block away.

"If I live to be a couple hundred years old, the story will not
change," said Edwards, 69. "There was very little traffic and
I see something that ran out in front of me. It looked like a giant
sloth except I know they're slow moving -- this one moved fast and dove
down into the edge of the road into a ditch area."

"It started out running, galloping on fours like a dog, but when it
dove I could see the arms come up. It was sizable, almost like a bear,
but not a bear, not the way its arms moved."

Chester Moore is a Bigfoot researcher from Orange, Texas, who will be
attending the Florida expedition. He is also an outdoor journalist, has
a degree in zoology and is founder of Project: Zoo Quest and the
American Primate Conservation Alliance. The Alliance recently awarded
Marlowe the J. E. Smokey Crabtree Cryptozoology Steward of the Year
award for 2005.

Moore said he has also seen and heard Bigfoot.

"I've gone far past the point of trying to answer the question for
myself -- these animals are real, not paranormal," he said.

Since 1999, he estimates he has logged about 300 days in the field
tracking the creature. He said although he and three friends saw it in
2000, it was the vocalizations that made the biggest impression. He said
the closest thing he has heard is a howler monkey.

"It's a serious pursuit and a fascination," Moore said.
"I write for dozens of publications about all sorts of thing, but
this is the biggest, hugest prize."

There will be about 20 participants in the field research class, said
Marlowe.

Experienced hunters will be teamed with neophytes, most of whom have
already taken some of Marlowe's classes.

Because the Swamp Ape is believed to be active at dusk and dawn, the
daytime will consist of coordinating data and workshops, while the night
hunts will rely on infrared cameras and night vision.

The location of the hunt will depend on a reported spot of Swamp Ape
activity, but Marlowe said possible locations include Collier, Monroe
and Levy counties and the Okeechobee and Green Swamp areas.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - The debate over the existence of sasquatch,
aka Bigfoot, an ape-like creature said to haunt the wilderness of
western Canada has entered the world of modern DNA testing.

A laboratory will test hair samples that several residents of Teslin,
Yukon, say were left when the large, but so-far mythological creature
made a late-night run through their community in early July.

University of Alberta wildlife geneticist David Coltman, who agreed
to do the tests as a favor to a colleague, said on Monday that
scientists have cataloged the DNA of nearly all large animals in the
Yukon such as bears and bison.

"So we'll compare it to all of that, and if it doesn't match
anything, then it's potentially interesting," said Coltman, who
suspects the hair was actually left behind by a much more mundane Yukon
bison.

"If sasquatch is indeed a primate, then we would expect the
sample to be closer to humans or chimpanzees or gorillas," Coltman
said.

The legend of a large, hairy, two-legged creature lurking in the
mountains of western Canada and the United States dates back to before
Europeans settled the continent. This was the second report of the
creature near Teslin in just over a year.

In the latest sighting, a group of Teslin residents told the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp. they heard branches cracking and saw a large
human-like creature run by a house. It left behind large footprints,
they said, and the hair tufts that were given to wildlife officials.

Coltman expects to have his results on Thursday and said that even if
the hair turns out not to be from a sasquatch, the process should serve
as good way to get students interested in the field of DNA testing.

"It's sort of like a wildlife CSI story," he said.

MANY REPORT SEEING BIGFOOT IN VIRGINIA. ONE MAN IS TRYING TO PROVE IT
By Joanne Kimberlin
The Virginian-Pilot
February 21, 2005

MANASSAS - Those who know 46-year-old William Dranginis say he's a
levelheaded guy.

He has a sharp mind, an easy smile, an attractive family, a nice home
and a trustworthy job designing surveillance equipment for the
government.

But 10 years ago, Dranginis says he crossed paths with something in the
deep, dark woods of Culpeper County.

Snicker if you want, but his life has never been the same.

March 11, 1995. Dranginis recites the day with unwavering detail.

Blue skies. The hint of spring. A perfect Saturday to mess around with
his latest passion: hunting for artifacts with his new metal detector.

Today had a special destination: a string of old gold mines from the
early 1800s that still stab deep into the rolling earth of Virginia's
Piedmont. He headed out early with an old friend, an FBI agent named
Frank, who shared his itch for hidden treasures. About an hour southwest
of home, near Richardsville, they picked up another agent, a man
Dranginis was meeting for the first time.

The day slipped by peacefully. The three hiked along dirt roads and
forested paths, poked into old mine shafts and scoured the soil. Around
mid afternoon, they turned back toward the car, tired and empty-handed.

On a logging road, about a half-mile from the pavement, Frank abruptly
shot his arms outward in a silent signal to halt.

"Behind that tree," he whispered. "There's a man."

The three stood stock-still, staring at a cluster of slender pines just
ahead on the right. Why would a man duck out of sight unless he was up
to no good? Frank drew the 9 mm handgun he wore holstered on his side.
The other agent produced one as well. Both trained their barrels at the
shadows behind the trees.

Suddenly, Dranginis says, a dark, shaggy head peered out at them from
behind a pine, then jerked back. Seconds later, he says, a creature like
none he'd ever seen darted out and began running, following the edge of
the road.

"It ran for about 75 feet, moving from our left to our right,
before it took a sharp turn that took it deeper into the woods,"
Dranginis said. "We watched the top of its head bobbing as it
disappeared down into a ravine."

During that 10 or 12 seconds, Dranginis says, he was shocked into a kind
of tunnel vision.

"I don't remember hearing anything, and I can't tell you what its
face looked like," he said. "I was just stunned by how tall it
was, like 7 feet. And it was so quick and agile. It moved on two legs
like a man, but so much more powerfully. I remember watching the muscles
work as it ran. And the hair flowing, back and forth, every time it
pumped its arms."

The creature was gone, but the men didn't move. The agents stood frozen
in their firing stances. A minute passed. Maybe another. No one spoke.
Finally, the agent from Richardsville found his voice.

"That was a bear," he said quietly. "Let's get out of
here."

They double-timed it to the car, looking over their shoulder the whole
way. They drove in silence, dropped off the Richardsville agent, then
stopped for a bite.

Over a burger, Dranginis finally looked Frank in the eye. "That
was no bear," Dranginis said.

"I know."

Until then, Dranginis says, he had not entertained a single serious
thought about Bigfoot. A big hairy creature, hiding out in North
America, that no one had ever managed to capture?

Come on. That stuff was for supermarket tabloids.

Actually, the legend of an elusive, upright, ape-like animal spans
centuries and cultures. The towering Yeti of ancient Asia. Abominable
snowmen of the Himalayas. Sasquatch of Native American lore.

The term "Bigfoot" took hold in the 1960s during a rash of
footprint finds and creature sightings in Northern California.
"Bigfoot fever" hit a high point in 1967, when a Sasquatch-type
animal was supposedly filmed on a few grainy frames of now famous -­
and much disputed ­- footage.

Real or not, the film became the cornerstone of a subculture of Bigfoot
believers. They flourished in the Pacific Northwest -­ an untamed place
where it seemed possible for a giant to hide.

But here? In long-settled, heavily trod Virginia?

John Green, 78, is considered by many to be "Mr. Sasquatch."
He lives in remote British Columbia, an epicenter of Bigfoot lore. Green
has spent much of his life probing the mystery.

In 1976, he crossed the U.S. to document sightings. Green says he
found reports in every state except Hawaii.

"Maryland was absolutely loaded with sightings," Green said.
"And Virginia is right next door."

If Bigfoot does dwell in the Old Dominion, state wildlife experts say,
it's news to them.

"I checked around with our long time game wardens," said Julia
Dickson-Smith of Virginia's Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
"None of them remembers ever getting a report about Bigfoot -­ not
from the public and not from anyone on staff."

Green says he's not surprised.

"Your wife doesn't believe you. Your best friend doesn't believe
you," Green said. "It doesn't take long to realize that the
smartest thing to do is shut up."

But what folks might hesitate to tell a uniform, they will tell
cyberspace. Bigfoot Web sites have ample reports from Virginia,with
encounters from the Blue Ridge to the Dismal Swamp.

The experiences range in intensity ­- from no more than other worldly
howls in the night heard at Surry's Chippokes Plantation State Park in
1998 to a 1981 report of a Bigfoot sprinting through the middle of a
campground in Chesapeake's Northwest River Park.

All that chatter from Virginia -­ as well as other Eastern states -­
has won the attention of seasoned researchers, who once thought the West
Coast had a corner on the phenomenon.

"No, we don't think Bigfoot is sitting in downtown D.C.," said
D.B. Donlon of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. Based in
California, the group bills itself as the oldest and largest of its
kind.

"But we have good reason now," Donlon said, "to believe
that the same creature being seen in the West is also being seen in the
East."

Even among believers, theories about the creature's identity ramble
widely. On the far fringes: Bigfoot is an alien, or a ghost, or even the
ghost of an alien.

Most students of Sasquatchery, however ­- including a handful of
reputable scientists -­ think Bigfoot may be a remnant relative of
Gigantopithecus, a large primate found in fossils in Asia, but thought
to be long extinct. A nocturnal, skittish lifestyle, they say, coupled
with thin numbers and more brainpower than most animals, has helped the
creatures avoid mankind.

Still, after decades of searching, doesn't it seem someone would have
collared a Bigfoot by now, dead or alive -­ or at least found some
verifiable remains?

"I can't explain that," said Jeff Meldrum, an anthropologist
and associate professor at Idaho State University. "I only know
that just because you lack a body doesn't mean you're justified in
offhandedly dismissing all evidence."

Meldrum specializes in primate studies, with a focus on how two-legged
species walk. Fake Bigfoot prints abound, Meldrum says, but scattered
among the pranks have been a few he considered genuine.

"Details ­- like toe dynamics, flexibility and weight shift ­-
all pointed to a real animal," Meldrum said. "That's when the
hair stands up on the back of your neck."

Dranginis' friend, Frank, does not want his last name used in a
newspaper story about Bigfoot. He's retired from federal law enforcement
now, but says he still works a job that requires a security clearance.

"I can't have people thinking I'm a nut," he said. "I
never told anybody about what we saw. I figured they wouldn't believe me
anyway."

Dranginis told anyone who would listen, even his co-workers at
Windermere Group, an Annapolis, Md.-based private contractor
specializing in government security. A gadget geek by nature, Dranginis
has spent 14 years designing spy stuff for the company ­- hidden eyes,
bug detectors and the like.

His job also requires a security clearance, but no one at work seemed
too worried about his state of mind. Most just raised an eyebrow, then
asked what he'd been drinking or smoking. Others tried to suggest some
reasonable explanation: Man in a monkey suit? An old hermit? Kids
playing a joke?

Few took him seriously, except his wife, Carol.

"I've known my husband since high school," she said. "He
came out of those woods a different man."

Over and over, Dranginis returned to Culpeper, hoping for another
glimpse. When that proved fruitless, he began building camera systems to
show the world, once and for all, that Bigfoot was real ­- and that he,
Dranginis, wasn't crazy.

He tried motion-triggered setups. Heat-triggered. Cameras mounted in
trees. Wrapped in camouflage. Buried in the ground.

None found a Bigfoot. Dranginis suspected the equipment was emitting
tiny, ultrasonic noises that were alerting the cagey creature.

He kept trying, trolling online auctions and supply houses, spending
just about every spare dollar he had on ever-more sophisticated
components.

After a while, Bigfoot became his full-time hobby. Maps of sightings
papered his garage. Electronic gizmos took over the shelves. Late-night
hours found him red-eyed, but still in his workshop.

By early 2001, Dranginis had given his mission an official name: the
Virginia Bigfoot Research Organization <http://www.virginiabigfootresearch.org/>.
He placed an ad in a rural magazine: "Have you seen a Bigfoot or
Sasquatch-type creature here in Virginia?"

More than 60 people responded. Dranginis wrote down their stories and
checked out still-hot trails.

Two years ago, he turned the key on the Bigfoot Primate Research Lab
­- a 24-foot Ford camper once used as a mobile veterinary clinic. Now
outfitted with an arsenal of high-tech spy gear, the camper has cemented
his status as the state's go-to guy for Sasquatch.

In all, Dranginis figures, those few seconds in the woods of Culpeper
have cost him around $55,000.

"At first, I just wanted to look this creature in the eye, to see
what it was, then get back to my life," he said. "But after a
while, it became
something I had to prove ­- not just for me, but for everyone else
who's seen it."

So far, Bigfoot hasn't cooperated. After a decade of trying, Dranginis
has managed to land little more than a couple of fuzzy photos and an
intriguing clump or two of hair.

His family, however, still supports him.

"My friends think it's cool," said Katie, 18, the younger
of his two daughters. "They come over here, and they're all into my
dad. They're really impressed with his toys."

Dranginis found what might be his best evidence on an old farm in
Chesterfield County, south of Richmond.

The couple who own the property don't want their names or the location
of their home revealed. Word has already leaked out, drawing gun-toting
trespassers with a thirst to be the first to bag Bigfoot.

The coupleare working with Dranginis because they like his
no-kill approach.

"He doesn't want to hurt these creatures and neither do we,"
said the husband, a country preacher. "We're just curious about
their origins."

Neither he nor his wife claim to have seen one.

"It's all from people who come to visit us or work on the
place," the husband said. "They've asked me, 'What kind of
animals are you raising here? Orangutans?'"

They have noticed huge prints in the snow shaped like a human's bare
foot. They've heard chilling sounds from the 2,500 acres of woods
hemming their property. They've wrinkled their noses at an overpowering,
sewer-like smell ­- a scent often reported by people who say they have
gotten close to Sasquatch.

"For the longest time, we thought it was a bear," the wife
said. "But wild bears don't walk on two legs."

Dranginis mounted one of his cameras on the couple's barn. The few
images it captured were too dim to prove anything. Then, the hair turned
up, a few wads of reddish-brown mats fluttering on the ground nearby.

Dranginis sent a portion of it to a specialist at the Smithsonian's
natural history museum. A copy of the results he received says the
sample "most closely matches the characteristics of human
hair."

He sent the same hair to a lab for a chemical profile. Janet Starr Hull,
a Texas nutritionist well-known on lecture and radio talk-show circuits,
reviewed the readings. Hull said she's puzzled by the low level of
toxins in the hair.

"I've studied hair analysis for many, many years," Hull
said. "I've never seen test results like this. Humans are exposed
to all kinds of pollutions and chemicals that show up in their hair.
This is not a human profile. At least not a modern one."

Dranginis wants to have DNA analysis done on the hair, but the going
rate at a private lab -­ around $5,000 ­- is too steep. He has tried
to persuade a number of university labs to do the work for free, but so
far, there have been no takers.

"The most hurtful ridicule comes from science," Dranginis
said, "the people I expected to at least be anxious to disprove me.
I can't even get them to take me seriously enough to look at it."

Every now and then, though, Dranginis gets a little backup when a
respected expert steps a toe onto his side ­- like Jane Goodall, the
famed primate researcher.

"Jane has heard similar stories from indigenous people all over
the world," said Nona Gandelman, a Goodall spokeswoman. "She
is open to the possibility that there may be a primate out there we
haven't met yet."

But -­ once again -­ here? In Virginia?

Some long time believers still aren't buying it.

Bob George, a Portsmouth native and long time Bigfoot researcher,
teaches biology at Florida International University in Miami.

"Look," George said, "when you start talking Virginia,
it's getting to be a little preposterous. I mean, what's next? New
Jersey?"

Well perhaps. According to the Sasquatch Information Society <http://www.bigfootinfo.org/>,
folks say they've bumped into Bigfoot at
least four times in the state better known for its turnpike than its
green space.

The names have been changed in this
report to protect the people privacy. Also I have typed up
the letters as I received them. (HBCC UFO Research)

This report starts in mid October 2001.
While in the Canadian Tire parking lot, Dan, a long time
acquaintance came up to me and started telling me about
three Sasquatch that had been hanging around his property
the whole summer the pervious year (2000). when I asked
him why he waited a whole year to tell me this, he said
that he didn't know who to contact. It was only when his
grandchildren saw my name on the web did he learn of my
interest in the Sasquatch. Arrangements were made to visit
him at his home to get more details.

Dan's house is the last one on the left
hand side of the road. Behind the lot and running back
along the street for three quarters of a mile is a large
area of undeveloped crown and park land. Behind the houses
there is also a natural gas pipeline and the clearing for
it is called the Pipeline Road. During the recession of
the early 1980's a make work program, the heavy brush and
scrub trees were removed and the area thinned out. A
number of access trails were made by cutting the trees
close to the ground. This area is well used by dirt
motorcycles, mountain bikes, horse riders and hikers.

Above: Pipline Road behind Dan's home
looking south towards Old Lakelse drive and the bench
where it connects to old Lakelse Drive. Drive on the left
runs into Dan's yard. Pictures taken in mid January, 2003.
a few days later it snowed.

It is in this area, surrounded by houses
and buildings that the Sasquatch were for the whole
summer.

In early May 2000, Dan's seventeen year
old granddaughter accompanied by a large sized dog was
walking along Pipeline Road. About 150 feet past Dan's
house, towards the hill was a flat area on top. Their dog
suddenly pressed against the granddaughter's legs and
stopped her. The granddaughter wondering why the dog was
acting so strangely, she saw about 250 feet ahead of her,
three hairy men crossing the road from the park to the
brush on the other side. Two were brown and one was white.

Dan knew what these hairy men were.

Not long after this, Dan decided to take
a horse back ride in the park. The horse refused to leave
the Pipeline Road and enter the park and it was this way
all summer. Also noted was all the dogs in the
neighborhood were barking much more than usual.

Several times during the summer Dan
walked through the area looking for signs of these
creatures. All that was found were places on the moss that
had a very strong unpleasant odor where the Sasquatch had
apparently bedded down. It was also noted that all the
wild berries had disappeared and no bear droppings were
seen. A number of times his horse and the neighbors dogs
were acting up and nothing could be seen to cause this at
night.

During the summer, once he hung out an
old work jacket on a high fence post that was on the bush
side of his yard which he soon forgot about. When he
finally thought about it and went to retrieve it several
days later it was stinking strongly of urine and had to be
washed. Apparently this is what the Sasquatch think of us
humans.

Also during the summer a large tree came
down across Pipeline Road and Dan cut it up for firewood.
It was wheel barrowed in as it was needed. In mid October
around 7:30 p.m. he went for another load of wood. With
him was a Husky breed of dog that he was looking after.
When he was heading out he noticed a group of kids on the
road and they were taking their time in going home as it
was getting dark.

When Dan reached the firewood which was
at the location where the granddaughter was when she saw
the hairy men. The dog was some distance further down the
road investigating the roadside. Just as the first piece
of wood landed in the wheelbarrow a loud scream came out
of the bus across the Pipeline Road from the parkland and
where the dog was sniffing around. The dog was paralyzed
and didn't know what to do, but came to Dan when he was
called.

He could also hear the voices of the
concerned kids on the Road. The wheelbarrow was loaded and
they started back. As they neared the fence of his
property line there was another loud scream from the bush
on the same side of the road which made the dog whimper
with fear. The kids who were on the road had heard enough.
From their scared voices and running feet it was obvious
that they were clearing out.

Meantime, Dan was trying to calm the dog
and at the same time talk to the creatures in the bush
with a soothing voice that meant no harm. By now it was
too dark to see any thing in the bush, but there were more
screams. What he did was a number of "ough,ough,ough
and some chatter which gradually moved away. It appears
that there were at least two at this spot. It is my
feeling that the screaming was at the dog for being so
close and not at Dan.

A few days later, Dan began to make the
sounds that he had heard and all the dogs within hearing
distance would start barking. By mid November the dogs
would no longer bark so franticly, so Dan tired his horse
again. This time it went into the park. The dogs and horse
knew that the Sasquatch were around even if the people
didn't. Even with heavy use, these creatures despite their
huge size managed to stay out of sight for the most part.

This is the next report on the Sasquatch.
On the previous report Dan had first told me that in mid
October 2001 what had happened the previous year (2000).
Dan was rather hard to get a hold of at his home. Being
retired and a widower, plus living alone he likes to spend
a lot of time shooting the bull at the local watering
hole. because of this the final details were not obtained
until November 24, 2001.

Terrace Mountain as seen from the
road scales looking northwest. The white spot is a rock
the graduation class usually paint their year on. The
Sasquatch rock was in line to the left in the center of a
discontinued power line which is the brown strip.

Above: A view of Terrace Mountain.

During the summer of 2001 there were no
signs of Sasquatch in the park area. When mushroom picking
season arrived, the park area became rather crowded so he
went up Terrace Mountain. he also took his dog with him.
while he was looking for mushrooms the dog was doing his
own exploring. Dan's dog started a howling session so Dan
went to investigate. When he arrived to where his dog was
he saw about a 4x6 foot flat rock, on the rock were three
big piles of strange looking scat. (animal droppings) Dan
knew there weren't from a bear. Also his dog has never
showed the slightest interest in bear droppings before.
However the dog went owly over these scats. They were not
touched but Dan kept a lookout for the creature after
that. He has been up the mountain recently and found that
recent heavy rains had washed two of them away. One was
under an evergreen tree and was still intact. Also he had
found three large footprints that has a six foot stride
across a slide area. Dan approached Mike to see if he was
interested in seeing this and would take him up on the
mountain to have a look. Of course Mike was interested in
seeing the scat as he felt it could not be faked. The only
problems was that Mike is 83 years old and has arthritis
in his left knee. Dan felt that Mike could make it by
using his cane, so the next day, November 25, 2001 we went
up to retrieve the scat, taking along an ice cream bucket
and some plastic to pick it up.

Above: Scat picked up November 24, 2002.
Weight was one pound, four ounces.

It all was as Dan had described it.
There were only stains on the rock where the two other
scats had washed down the sides. The base of the rock was
checked and there was nothing there. I'm looking around
and wondering what attracted the creature to this spot so
often as there was no food here. Dan had already figured
it out. This rock was in the center of a now discontinued
power line right of way. a hundred yards below was a good
view of a nature hiking trail. Below that was a busy road
with a bridge across the Skeena River. It was the ideal
place to do some people watching.

The scat was put in the pail and it was
off to look at the tracks, there were three in an almost
straight line across a narrow shale slide area. The
footprints were just oblong depressions, four inches deep
and about six feet apart. Dan is 6 ft 2 and weighs 280
pounds and left no visible footprints on the slide area,
even just below the Sasquatch tracks. From this
observation how much would a 10 foot tall Sasquatch weigh?

The scat weighed one and a quarter
pounds. It was loaded with plum stones as if the creature
had raided someone's orchard. About 1000 feet away on a
bench was a sizeable housing area. Another member who
drives a taxi counted nine plum trees in that area. Even
though word had gone around that something was in the area
.. nobody had reported seeing anything like this creature.
During the summer of 2003, full reports were sent to the
Washington State University, Oregon Field Guide and a B.C.
Anthropologist. None replied even though they regularly
appear on TV documentaries. A check was also made to the
B.C. government and they have no testing facility for this
type of work. And could offer no more help.

The plum stones that the Sasquatch ate
are sharp and rough and are in the fasces. There is some
headway being made to prove scientifically that the
Sasquatch exists. In the meantime the scat was allowed to
dry out and is now one third of its original size.

After we had picked up the Sasquatch
scat, Dan told me of an incident that took place at the
home of a long time mutual acquaintance. Due to the
circumstances involved his name can't be given so we'll
call him Jim. When I arrived at his home, Jim had been
expecting me to drop by. The incident in question took
place in summer around 1980. As with most people of that
time he really didn't believe in wild people living in the
woods.

One night about two a.m. he was awakened
by some noise outside his bedroom window. There,
silhouetted by the street lights, was a large human like
figure that filled much of the five feet long and 3 feet
high window. He thought that it was standing on a ladder
because its head was near the top of the window which was
10 feet off the ground. Huge hands were on the window
sill. The creature that he believed didn't exist .. was
here at his bedroom window.

Thinking that the creature was trying to
break in and fearing for his life, he hurried to the
closet where he had a double barreled shotgun and a box of
shells. Quickly loading the gun he went back to the
window. There at point blank range he raised his shotgun
to the center of the forehead and let go with both
barrels. One after the other right through the glass. He
then rushed to the shattered window to see the results of
his marksmanship. To his disbelief he sees a huge human
like figure high tailing it down the driveway to the road.
At the speed it was going nothing on legs would have
caught it. It would have been foolhardy to go outside in
the dark, so the gun was reloaded and he went back to bed.
In the morning there were huge footprints under the window
but not a drop of blood could be found. The next question
asked was about the color of the fur and he said it was
white. The last question was if this had been reported to
the police. His answer was that the police would never
have believed him. There was no body, no blood, and the
footprints could be fakes.

He would have probably been charged with
dangerous use of a firearm in a residential area. The
houses across the street were peppered with bird shot.
However enough velocity was lost so no windows were
broken. No damage was noticed. And no reports were made to
the police.

It is safer to talk about it now as
there is less skepticism that the Sasquatch exists. So
what happened here ???? We can surmise that the creature
saw movement in the room and decided to exit in a hurry.
It moved just far enough aside for the hail of pellets to
miss its head and ended up with a good scare and badly
ringing ears.

There were no more reports of a
Sasquatch peeking into any house windows. However, in my
talking to loggers, there was mention of a Sasquatch doing
similar things on the Queen Charlotte islands. This gives
our local report some validity.

Another report came in from a logging
crew. While on a logging site they saw at a distance, a
human form. They were sure that what they were seeing was
not a human.

I would like to request if anyone has
been witness to a Sasquatch/Bigfoot I would really like to
hear the story. Thank you, Brian Vike - HBCC UFO Research

The world famous Roger Patterson 'Bigfoot' film, taken in 1967 at Bluff,
Creek, California, which has baffled scores of scientists and skeptics
alike for nearly 40 years, will finally be proven to be a HOAX.

This new, stunning evidence will be revealed on nationally-syndicated
Jeff Rense Program Monday, March 1, 2004, 7-10pm Pacific Standard Time.
Jeff Rense is heard on over 100 stations in the US and also broadcast
around the world online.

"I am looking forward to hearing this remarkably important new
evidence which is promised to, at long last, bring in a final verdict on
the
Patterson Bigfoot film controversy. The public has a right to the know
the facts, and I am expecting some shocking and surprising new
information and details." said Rense, host of the popular program
known for its hard-hitting journalism.

The Jeff Rense Program exclusive three hour feature story will be truly
historic and definitive, and features the following guests:

1) Kal Korff, - Internationally-known Author, Broadcaster, and
Prague-based Investigative Journalist, who has written the Foreword for
the explosive new book, The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story, which
blows open the Patterson Bigfoot case. Korff will discuss the secret
investigation that was launched years ago that finally broke the
Patterson case, plus other projects that will affect the public that are
coming up.

2) Joining Kal Korff on the program will also be Executive Television
Producer Robert C. Kiviat, President of Kiviat Productions, best known
for his highly-rated Fox network TV specials such as Alien Autopsy: Fact
or Fiction?, and World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed,
which first began to crack open the Bigfoot hoax. Kiviat will talk about
the development of his TV special and efforts to bring the expose to the
airwaves.

3) Also featured on the Rense Program will be Greg Long, author of the
historic, new expose book, The Making of Bigfoot, which rips open the
legend of the Patterson film. Long will present and document his
exclusive, hard-boiled evidence that proves the case is a fraud.

The HIGHLIGHT of the program is truly an historic event: author Greg
Long will also have with him a surprise, 'mystery' guest - THE VERY MAN
WHO ACTUALLY WORE THE BIGFOOT SUIT IN THE PATTERSON FILM HOAX.

His name and identity will finally be revealed, and he will talk live
for the first time ever in public.

4) The final segment of the The Jeff Rense Program will feature
Prague-based Czech Broadcaster and Journalist, Michaela Kocis, author of
the exclusive newspaper expose about the breakthrough book and the
solving of the Patterson film hoax.

Says host Jeff Rense, "The Patterson film is considered by many to
be the single, greatest piece of hard evidence for the reality of a
Bigfoot-like creature. On March 1, 2004, this particular, historic piece
of evidence is promised to be laid to rest."

"It is critically-important to expose fraudulent cases whenever
possible. Not only will the man who reportedly wore the costume give his
testimony but a number of other revelations are promised as well,
including learning the identity of the man who allegedly made and sold
the costume to Patterson for the film. This program promises to be a
blockbuster."

A row has erupted in Nepal after a Japanese expert on Himalayan languages
insisted the yeti was nothing more than a case of linguistic mistaken identity.

Dr Matako Nabuka is a researcher and mountaineer who spent 12 years in
Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan conducting, he says, research into the elusive abominable
snowman.

Hackles began to rise in Kathmandu earlier this month when Dr Nabuka told
a press conference in Tokyo yetis were not mysterious apes or hairy hominids
living in the High Himalaya.

They were, quite simply, Himalayan brown bear, known in a regional Tibetan
dialect as "meti", he said.

"This has spread too far," said Dr Nabuka, referring to belief in the
yeti.

Many claim to have seen it, he said, but no one has proof.

The tribes of the Himalayas worship the brown bear as a deity, Dr Nabuka
pointed out, and have endowed it with supernatural powers.

He said he had pictures of bear paws and other artefacts from the animal
being venerated by mountain tribes people.

Linguistic dispute

But no sooner had the story hit the Nepali press than local opinion chimed
in.

A letter to the editor of the Kathmandu Post headlined "Yetiquette" took
Dr Nabuka to task for linguistic carelessness.

A "yeti" from contested footage shot in California in 1967

Signed by Bha Dawa, the letter says the Japanese researcher may have spent
too long in the wrong mountains and had himself mixed up his words.

Both "yeti" and "meti" mean a near-mythical beast, said Mr Dawa.

Dr Nabuka has other opponents.

Dr Raj Kumar Pandey, who like the Japanese scientist researches both yetis
and mountain languages, says it is not enough to blame tales of the mysterious
beast of the Himalayas on words that rhyme but mean different things.

"Look at all the foreign expeditions that have seen [the yeti]," says
Dr Pandey, naming British mountaineering legend, Eric Shipton, Italian
super-mountaineer Reinhold Messner and the British Everest expedition leader
from 1953, John Hunt.

"We have much more research to do on language and in zoology before we
believe statements like this [from Dr Nabuka]."

Japanese rivalry

A very informal straw poll of mountaineers in Kathmandu carried out for
BBC News Online at the city's legendary Rum Doodle Bar, a favourite hangout
of climbers, found at least three people who claimed to have seen the yeti.

We'll get a picture this time and then all disbelievers will learn their
lessons

Yoshiteru Takahashi,

rival to Dr Nabuka

None wanted their names used but all denied vehemently that their claims
had anything to do with the amount of locally brewed Everest beer they were
drinking.

In the end, it all probably comes down to rivalry between Japanese
mountain-climbers.

Dr Nabuka's press conference came just weeks after Japan's most celebrated
yeti-hunter, Yoshiteru Takahashi, left his country to make "the definitive
attempt" to photograph the beast.

Mr Takahashi claims to have found a yeti cave on the slopes of Dhaulagiri,
the world's fifth highest mountain, in western Nepal.

His camera froze in 1994 when he tried to photograph the denizens of the
cave, he said in Tokyo before leaving.

This year, he is using nine infrared cameras with motion sensitive shutters,
and wrapping them up well against the Himalayan chill.

"We'll get a picture this time," he said, "and then all disbelievers will
learn their lessons."

It's been the subject of campfire stories for decades. A camera-elusive,
grooming-challenged, bipedal ape-man who roams the mountain regions of
North America. Some call it Sasquatch. Others know it as Bigfoot.

Thousands of people claim to have seen the hairy hominoid, but the
evidence of its existence is fuzzy. There are few clear photographs of the
oversized beast. No bones have ever been found. Countless pranksters have
admitted to faking footprints.

Yet a small but vociferous number of scientists remain undeterred.
Risking ridicule from other academics, they propose that there's enough
forensic evidence to warrant something that has never been done: a
comprehensive, scientific study to determine if the legendary primate
actually exists.

"Given the scientific evidence that I have examined, I'm convinced
there's a creature out there that is yet to be identified," said Jeff
Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University
in Pocatello.

Thousands of Sightings

Sasquatch stories go back centuries. Tales of mythical giant apes lurk in
the oral traditions of most Native American tribes, as well as in Europe
and Asia. The Himalaya has its Abominable Snowman, or the Yeti. In
Australia, Bigfoot is known as the Yowie Man.

Bigfoot advocates hypothesize that the primate is the offspring of an ape
from Asia that wandered to North America during the Ice Age. They believe
there are at least 2,000 ape men walking upright in North America's woods
today.

An adult male is said to be at least 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall, weigh
800 pounds (360 kilograms), and have feet twice the size of a human's. The
creatures are described as shy and nocturnal, and their diets consist
mostly of berries and fruits.

Matt Moneymaker had been searching for Bigfoot for years. In the woods of
eastern Ohio, he claims he finally came eye to eye with the elusive
primate.

"It was 2 o'clock in the morning and the moon was a quarter
full," recalled Moneymaker. "Suddenly, there he was, an
eight-foot-tall creature, standing 15 feet away, growling at me. He wanted
to let me know I was in the wrong place."

Moneymaker, who lives in Dana Point in southern California, is a lawyer
who runs his own marketing agency. In his spare time, he leads the Bigfoot
Field Researchers Organization, a network of more than 3,000 people who
claim to have seen the Sasquatch.

Unfortunately, no one has been able to snap a clear picture of the
beast.

Perhaps the most compelling photographic evidence of Bigfoot is a
controversial short film shot by Roger Patterson in 1967, which appears to
document a female Bigfoot striding along a riverbank in northern
California.

"It certainly wasn't human"

Now, Bigfoot advocates are increasingly turning to forensic evidence to
prove the existence of the giant creature.

Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police Department in Texas, who
specializes in finger- and footprints, has analyzed the more than 150
casts of Bigfoot prints that Meldrum, the Idaho State professor, keeps in
a laboratory.

Chilcutt says one footprint found in 1987 in Walla Walla in Washington
State has convinced him that Bigfoot is real.

"The ridge flow pattern and the texture was completely different
from anything I've ever seen," he said. "It certainly wasn't
human, and of no known primate that I've examined. The print ridges flowed
lengthwise along the foot, unlike human prints, which flow across. The
texture of the ridges was about twice the thickness of a human, which
indicated that this animal has a real thick skin."

Meldrum, meanwhile, says a 400-pound (180-kilogram) block of plaster known
as the Skookum Cast provides further evidence of Bigfoot's existence. The
cast was made in September 2000 from an impression of a large animal that
had apparently lain down on its side to retrieve some fruit next to a mud
hole in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State.

Meldrum says the cast contains recognizable impressions of a forearm, a
thigh, buttocks, an Achilles tendon and heel. "It's 40 to 50 percent
bigger than a normal human," he said. "The anatomy doesn't jive
with any known animal."

A few academics believe Meldrum could be right.

Renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall last year surprised an
interviewer from National Public Radio when she said she was sure that
large, undiscovered primates, such as the Yeti or Sasquatch, exist.

The Skeptics

But the vast majority of scientists still believe Bigfoot is little
more than supermarket tabloid fodder. They wonder why no Bigfoot has ever
been captured, dead or alive.

"The bottom line is, they don't have a body," said Michael
Dennett, who writes for Skeptical Inquirer magazine and who has followed
the Bigfoot debate for 20 years.

Bigfoot buffs note that it's rare to find a carcass of a grizzly bear
in the wild. While that's true, grizzlies have not escaped photographic
documentation.

Hair samples that have been recovered from alleged Bigfoot encounters have
turned out to come from elk, bears or cows.

Many of the sightings and footprints, meanwhile, have proved to be hoaxes.

After Bigfoot tracker Ray Wallace died in a California nursing home last
year, his children finally announced that their prank-loving dad had
created the modern myth of Bigfoot when he used a pair of carved wooden
feet to create a track of giant footprints in a northern California
logging camp in 1958.

Dennett says he's not surprised by the flood of Bigfoot sightings.

"It's the same kind of eyewitness reports we see for the Loch Ness
Sea Monster, UFOs, ghosts, you name it," he said. "The monster
thing is a universal product of the human mind. We hear such stories from
around the world."

A forensic expert in the US believes he has some of the strongest evidence
yet that the Bigfoot, or sasquatch, creature exists.

The creatures are real enough to those who say they have spotted them -
but most scientists remain sceptical about their existence.

Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police Department in Texas, who
specialises in finger and footprints, has said he believes he is certain
around six footprints found - claimed to have been made by Bigfoot - are
genuine.

He added that one 42 cm (18-inch) print found in Washington in 1987 has
convinced him.

"The unique thing about this cast is that it has dermal ridges -
and the flow and texture matches the ridge flow texture of one from
California," Mr Chilcutt told BBC World Service's Discovery programme.

"The ridges are about twice as thick as in a human being."

'Physical evidence'

Before becoming involved in bigfoot studies, Mr Chilcutt had amassed a
huge collection of ape and monkey prints as part of a police research
project.

He added that the ridge flow pattern was crucial in proving the prints had
not been made by a very large-footed human or other primate.

"The ridges run down the side of the foot - in humans, the ridges run
across the width of the foot," he said.

"That's what makes it unique. The only other animal I've seen this in
is a howler monkey in Costa Rica.

"As a crime scene investigator, I don't deal in what I believe or
what I think.

"I examine physical evidence and make a determination... I know
there's an animal out there, because I've seen the physical
evidence."

The Bigfoot is considered to be a North American version of the yeti of
the Himalayas. The name bigfoot comes from several huge, mysterious foot
impressions found in 1959 in a Californian forest.

Hundreds of other prints have been found since, although many have
turned out to be hoaxes.

"There have been reported sightings in every state of the United
States, other than Hawaii and Rhode Island," said Craig Woolheater,
director of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center.

"It's not the missing link, it's not an extra-terrestrial, it's just
an animal - a flesh-and-blood primate that has learned to be elusive
around man and avoids man where possible."

Sightings

Mr Woolheater's organisation investigates about 100 Bigfoot sightings in
the state each year - as well as the surrounding states of Arkansas and
Louisiana.

Members use a wide range of technology - remote-controlled cameras, video
surveillance systems, night-vision, and thermal imaging - in an effort to
get video and photographic evidence of these creatures.

So far it has proved unsuccessful.

However, other evidence gathered through time includes footprints, audio
recordings and "limb twists" - where branches of trees have
seemingly been twisted by a type of primate with massive strength.

These twists are a common aspect of primate behaviour and Bigfoot
hunters say they occur in areas where there have been a number of
sightings.

But most of the evidence - such as photographs, hair samples, and even
blood - has turned out to be fake.

"There is a significant amount of evidence for Bigfoot - there are
tracks, there are fuzzy photographs, there are hair samples, there are
sighting reports - the problem is that it's not good evidence," said
Benjamin Radford, managing editor of Sceptical Inquirer magazine.

"I liken it to a cup of coffee - if you have many cups of weak
coffee, they can't be combined into strong coffee.

"It's the same with scientific evidence. If you have lots of weak
evidence, the cumulative effect of the evidence doesn't make it strong
evidence - and what science needs to validate a Bigfoot is strong
evidence."

Cryptozoology

Bigfoot is probably the best-known of the subjects of "cryptozoology"
- the study of hidden creatures.

Some scientists are highly sceptical, believing these creatures to be
nothing more than tricks of the mind.

"One of the problems - and I know this from my background in
psychology - is that it's actually fairly easy to fool ourselves,"
said Mr Radford.

"What often happens is that people will be out in the wilderness
and they'll see something out of the corner of their eye - something dark
or hairy or fast - that will surprise or shock them.

"If they're already thinking that there's a Bigfoot in the area, it's
easy to make the leap between saying: 'I saw something, I don't know what
it is,' to: 'I saw something and it's Bigfoot.'"

But others say it is best to keep an open mind.

"Every now and again big things turn up," Colin Tudge, zoologist
and author of the book The Variety Of Life, told Discovery.

"The okapi - a horse-sized relative of the giraffe - turned up only
in the early 20th Century.

"A few years ago somebody discovered an absolutely enormous shark in
the
ocean.

"The most recent - and I think the most spectacular - is an animal
that
people think is a goat-antelope, some kind of relative of the shamuar,
which
has turned up in the forests of Vietnam.

"This is an animal about the size of a Shetland pony with long horns,
that
nobody even suspected was there until just a few years ago - it was
finally
identified in about 1994."

Legend of Bigfoot Has A Big Following

9-20-03

Northern California town set to play host to serious symposium
by Blair Anthony Robertson
The Sacramento Bee

WILLOW CREEK - They are tall, heavy, hairy, stinky - at least to us -
and surprisingly nonaggressive. People say they must have excellent eyesight
and a keen sense of smell.

They are very shy - either that or they roam and forage mostly at night.
On the off chance they are spotted, they are almost never in a group setting.
Same goes for the people who say they've seen them.

Whenever they leave behind footprints - big ones - people invariably rush
out with plaster of Paris and make chunky castings. These creatures are the
subject of books, websites and scientific papers and yet no one knows what
they eat, how they socialize, where they live or if- and its a humdinger
of an if - they exist at all.

Snicker if you will, but Bigfoot still is a serious subject in some quarters,
especially in Northern California, outliving the label of urban myth and
withstanding all the mockery.

Beginning today, Willow Creek will play host to the International Bigfoot
Symposium, attracting everyone from crackpots to tenured professors for two
days of scientific findings, pseudoscientific theories, spirited debate and
the appropriate dose of folklore. Organizers say nearly 200 people had registered
for the 4125 conference.

One of the most heated topics in Bigfoot circles is whether someone should
kill one, present it to the scientific community for study and end the mystery
once and for all.

Some say they have heard of people who have had a sasquatch in the their
gun sights but could not pull the trigger. The thing looked too human.

David Walsh, a longtime psychology professor at the University of Southern
california, reported seeing a Bigfoot in 2002 while hunting wild pigs in
MOnterey County. Too surprised to react as the creature disappeared into
the woods, Walsh knows what he'll do next time.

"I have a rifle in my gun case specifically bought for that purpose,"
Walsh said of his $2,500 .378-caliber Weatherby magnum.

"I'm against killing one," said 79-year old Al Hodgson, who used to run
a general store in the Humboldt County town. "But you know something, they've
done an awful good job of protecting themselves so far.

So good, in fact, that Bigfoot sightings in California appear to be drying
up. Is it possible that Bigfoot will become extinct before one is even found?

"I haven't heard much. It just seems like a quiet year," said Daniel Perez,
publisher of the Bigfoot Times, a monthly newsletter.

Regarding the debate over killing a Bigfoot, Perez says, "What's the
objection? Here's a chance t solve one of the biggest questions the world
may ever know."

willow Creek residents are divided on the overall issue. some say they're
reluctant to have serious conversations on the subject, fearing hurt feelings
and heated tempers.

But no one denies it's good for the small town's bottom line.

"I firmly believe in the economic impact of Bigfoot," said Jo Ann Hereford,
a volunteer at the Willow Creek-Chine Flat museum which has a Bigfoot display.
Interest in Bigfoot is such that the museum recently began operating five
days a week, up from three.

Bigfoot enthusiasts still are smarting from ray Wallace's death in 2002,
when his family revealed that the famous footprints "discovered" 40 miles
north of Willow Creek were a hoax made with feet carved out of wood.

Believers say that although the hoax was bad publicity, it doesn't affect
the numerous other sightings, credible footprints and other evidence.

Pointing to lack of evidence

Still, skeptics wonder why no one has found a bone, a carcass, an encampment,
feces - anything that can be tested for DNA.

"Many prominent people in town don't believe," Hereford said. "We have
business people who push everything Bigfoot, but the evidence hasn't persuaded
them to believe."

One of those is NOrm Evans, who has a Bigfoot mural on the wall of his
Union 76 gas station and a 4,000-pound chain-saw carving of the creature
out front.

"It's a lot of fun, but I don't think there is a Bigfoot," Evans said.
"There would have to be a Mrs. Bigfoot and junior Bigfoot, too. This country
is remote, but people go into the woods hunting or growing marijuana, and
no one has ever seen one.

That statement might be heresy at the International Bigfoot Symposium.
Attendees would point to the landmark "Patterson-Gimlin" film shot in 1967
or the recent work of Jimmy Chilcutt, a fingerprint expert with the Police
Department in Conroe, Texas, who says footprint castings he's examined have
distinct dermal ridge patterns that are not human.

Chilcutt, 38, whose work is seen is giving the Bigfoot quest a badly needed
shot in the arm, will be one of the symposium's most anticipated speakers.

"We just want to know what the truth is - with no fanfare or flash." Chilcutt
said, "I have no interest one way or the other. I'm just telling the facts.
The evidence I have examined shows there is a north American primate out
there somewhere."

But where?

That's the question no one seems able to answer, and the reason for the
growing call to bring ina Bigfoot dead or alive.

"I'm kind of proud of this guy. He has managed to evade capture for a
long time," Chilcutt said.

Walsh, the 56-year old USC professor, says he didn't even think about
Bigfoot initially when he saw the huge, hairy creature sauntering through
the forest 18 months ago. At 6-foot 6 inches tall himself, Walsh says the
creature stood 7 to 8 feet tall and weighed about 1,200 pounds.

When heh met up with two hunters later that evening, "I wasn't about to
say anything to these guys. They would have thought I was a raving
lunatic."

But the professor is no longer afraid to talk about it. His brush with
Bigfoot prompted him to read and study the topic in detail.

"I would say the odds are 99 percent that there really is such a creature
living in the wilderness of North America," Walsh said.

And if that creature is discovered near Willow Creek, everyone there agrees
it will be good for business.

NEW SPECIES OF APES DISCOVERED? (8/13/2003):SEEKING ANSWERS TO BIG 'MYSTERY APE'
By Marsha Walton
CNN
Saturday, August 9, 2003

(CNN) -- From a remote region in the heart of Africa to a genetics
lab at the Omaha Zoo, scientists are trying to find out if they have a
new big ape on their hands.

"It doesn't look much like a gorilla, it doesn't look like a
chimpanzee," said primatologist Shelly Williams, who captured a bit
of video of the female mystery ape with a baby.

Pictures of the rare ape are scarce. Wildlife photographer Karl Amman,
who was first to spot the mysterious mammals a few years ago, said the
animal has feet that are about two inches bigger than the average
gorilla and is more flat-faced than other apes. Its behavior also sets
it apart from other apes, researchers say.

The mystery ape often sleeps in big ground nests. Chimpanzees, for
example, usually nest in trees to stay away from predators. And the
mystery apes hoot when the moon rises and sets, something chimps don't
do for fear of attracting lions and hyenas, Williams said.

So what could this animal be?

"We cannot rule out the possibility that it is a new species of
ape, or a new subspecies or some form of hybrid," said Duane
Rumbaugh, a professor at Georgia State University.

"Discovering any new primate is a huge thing, a new ape would be
incredible," said Ed Louis, conservation geneticist at the Henry
Doorly
Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.

Common ancestor

Chimpanzees, bonobos (also known as pygmy chimps), and gorillas are all
members of the ape family. Present-day apes and humans had a common
ancestor in the distant past -- perhaps 6 million years ago, scientists
say.

But Amman found some evidence and plenty of local legend to suggest
another type of big ape also may call Africa home. The forest in the
north central area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the
mystery ape lives, is known to be populated by chimpanzees. The nearest
gorillas and bonobos are hundreds of miles away.

Williams, who speaks the local language, Lingala, interviewed
villagers about their sightings of the creature in the Bili forest of
what was once the Belgian Congo and later the Republic of Zaire.

"Some people call them 'lion eaters' because they are so big,"
Williams said.

Using clever tricks

On her last trip to the region earlier this year she got within about 15
feet of the animals. With some local trackers she was able to follow the
apes for several hours. Williams and the trackers used some clever
tricks to lure the mystery apes.

Pictures of the 'mystery ape' are rare because the animals are skittish
and aggressive. Here a researcher captured an image from afar of one of
the animals with her offspring.

"One of my trackers made the sound of a duiker, a small antelope,
as if it were in pain," said Williams. Four or five of the mystery
primates fell for the ruse and came running to kill it.

Chimpanzees and bonobos both are carnivorous. Chimps are known to eat
monkeys, and at times other chimps; bonobos catch and eat fish.

Williams also has a fascinating anecdote from a longtime resident of the
region, an 84-year-old Norwegian Baptist missionary known as
"Madame Liev."

"Years ago, she was driving an old truck and one of these apes
walked by in front of her. It was walking bipedally (upright) and was
taller than her, and she's six feet tall," Williams said.

Comparing DNA

Conservation geneticist Ed Louis at the Omaha Zoo is working on an
important piece of the ape mystery also.

"We compared fecal samples from this unknown animal to the DNA of
captive gorillas, bonobos, and chimps," Louis said. "Our
preliminary data shows that the mitochondrial DNA is chimp-like."

But mitochondrial DNA is passed down only from the mother's side. So if
this species or sub-species is a hybrid of a chimp mother and a gorilla
father, current DNA would only identify information from the mother.

Tests yet to come are nuclear DNA tests: This roadmap would come from
both parents.

Is it a hybrid?

If the mystery animal does turn out to be a hybrid of a chimp and a
gorilla , for example, such inter-breeding would not be unique in
nature. There are several examples of different species breeding
successfully, said Louis.

There are hybridized green sea turtles and hawksbill turtles, as well as
some hybrids of Borneo and Sumatran orangutans.

Louis said he's eager to examine further samples from the mystery ape.

Williams hopes to return to the African habitat this autumn.

She's already working on some tactics to improve her observation. She'll
camouflage her skin because the animals have not seen light-skinned
humans. She'll also follow the animals and try to camp out near them
overnight, and she'll set up three more observation platforms near the
animals' nests.

Bigfoot Spotted in China & Tennessee

08-Jul-2003

A Bigfoot sighting has been reported in a forests in central China, where
legends say the creatures live. It was seen by six people, including a
journalist. Another one was spotted in Tennessee. A Bigfoot researcher, speaking
at a conference nearby, was able to make a cast of the its footprint.

The Chinese sighting was described as a grayish "mythical ape-like animal,"
5 1/2 feet tall with shoulder-length black hair. Reporter Shang Zhengmin
says it was moving quickly, and by the time their car caught up with it,
the Bigfoot had disappeared. He and the other five passengers got out of
their car and found several 3 foot-long footprints and newly broken branches
nearby. They also discovered a patch of "foul smelling urine-like liquid"
on the road where the creature was seen. Several years ago, China's state
press announced that scientists had unearthed hundreds of fossilized teeth
from giant apes in the same area where this Bigfoot was spotted.

Hal McKenzie writes in cosmictribune.com about a Bigfoot sighting near
the Alternate Realities Conference in Tennessee. A local woman called the
conference to report that she'd seen a Bigfoot staring at her through the
window of her trailer.

Bigfoot investigator Sherry Lee Malin, who was speaking at the conference,
hurried off to investigate and made a cast of what appeared to be a footprint
in the soft ground. It shows two indentations 16-17 inches apart, which could
be toes and a heel, or knuckles and a knee if the creature kneeled.

One conference attendee was inspired by the sighting to divulge his own
Bigfoot encounter, which he'd kept secret until then. On a winter hike, he
followed a line of huge footprints in the snow that led to a still-steaming
hole where a bipedal creature had just urinated. He was startled to see a
huge, reddish-gray hairy hominid only 15 feet away striding through dry leaves
and twigs, without making a sound.

An investigation has been launched in China after six people claimed to
have
spotted the Wild Man of Shennongjia.

The 5ft 5ins, grey-skinned human-like figure, which had shoulder-length
black hair and crooked arms and back, was seen walking across a road.

The Wild Man of Shennongjia, a Yeti-like creature, is said to live in
the
mountainous forests of Hubei Province.

The six people who saw the creature were traveling in a vehicle in the
Shennongjia Nature Reserve, reports the Hong Kong edition of China
Daily.

One of the witnesses, Shang Zhengmin, a local reporter, said they saw
the
beast as they turned a corner on a mountain road.

He said the "ape-like" animal was moving fast on the road and
by the time
the vehicle finished the turn, it had disappeared.

Passengers got out of the vehicle and found several 12 ins footprints,
newly
broken branches and a large patch of "foul smelling urine-like
liquid" on
the road.

Dozens of sightings of the Wild Man have been reported in the area and
China
organised several searches during the 1980s and 1990s but to no avail.

'Bigfoot' sighting in China

Monday, June 30, 2003

BEIJING, China --Chinese
authorities are investigating several apparent sightings of a legendary
'ape-like' beast at a nature reserve in the central Hubei province.

The mythical creature, suspected by locals to be a 'Bigfoot', was
apparently seen by six people, including a journalist in the Shennongjia
Nature reserve on Sunday afternoon, the state-run Xinhua news agency
reported.

Local legend has it that the reserve is home to the half-man,
half-ape creature but several high-profile searches in the past three
decades have failed to find any evidence of its existence.

Speculation the 'Bigfoot' could be a descendant of apes mounted
after China's state media reported several years ago that scientist had
found fossilized teeth of giant primates in the area.

The latest sighting described the creature as a grayish ape-like
animal, the Xinhua report said, about 1.65-meters tall with shoulder
length black hair.

A vehicle carrying the journalist and five others was making a
turn when the occupants saw the creature moving fast across the road,
the Xinhua report said.

By the time the vehicle had stopped, the animal had disappeared.

The passengers found several 30 centimeter-long (12 inches)
footprints and newly broken branches in the jungle near the road, the
report said.

They also claimed to have discovered a three-meter-long (9.9 feet)
patch of "foul smelling urine-like liquid" on the road where
the creature was seen.

While some scientists theorize the creature could be the missing
link between primates and humans, other hypotheses say it may be a bear,
monkey or an elaborate hoax.

Bigfoot Tracks Found in Canada

16-Jun-2003

In British Columbia, Francis Joe found a trail of huge 15 inch footprints
in his strawberry field on the reservation where he lives. He thinks they
belong to the legendary creature the Cowichan people call Thumquas. He says,
"That's not the tracks of an ordinary human."

He heard his dogs barking, but didn't pay any attention to them because
they often "bark all night." Local fishermen told him they've heard growling
noises in the brush along the river.

Thirty years ago, his three daughters saw a sasquatch in the same vicinity.
"It was just getting dark and it was standing by a ditch just staring at
us," says Jeanne Bob. "It was really big, black and hairy, and had a very
strong smell. I wasn't kidding then and now I really believe it."

The soil in the berry patch was too soft to reveal a double ball on the
foot, which some investigators believe separates real bigfoot tracks from
fakes. The double ball would be necessary to carry the weight of the eight-foot
creature. John Kirk, of the B.C. Scientific Cryptozoology Club, says, "Each
foot print also has to be different because of walking mechanics. With fakes,
every footprint is exactly the same." The footprints are three inches deep,
which Kirk says is important because, "An imprint deeper than a human's indicates
a greater weight."

Bigfoot Prints in Colorado

13-Feb-2003

While some Bigfoot prints have been faked, not all of them are. Trevor
Denny is one of the people who has seen and photographed a Bigfoot footprint.
He was hiking with his dog on the Mesa Cortina trail in Colorado when he
noticed several footprints on the trail. The largest measured 12 to 13 inches
in length, and they looked human, with five distinct toes, but were far larger
than any human feet he's ever seen. They were intermixed with bear paw prints.
He followed them until they faded away, and two days later, he returned with
his camera and took pictures of them. According to the Bigfoot Field Research
Organization, there have been several Bigfoot sightings in Colorado in the
past.

January 15, 2003 North Logan, Utah - The mother and son in a North Logan,
Utah family who have seen tall, hairy Bigfoot creatures walk along the canal
behind their house have asked not to be identified for fear of public ridicule.
The mother first saw a Bigfoot when she was 15-years-old in 1968 in almost
the same place that her 16-year- old son saw another large, hairy creature
on January 2, 2003. It was 11:30 p.m. MST and "Billy," as I'll call him,
was talking with his cousin on his grandma's back porch two houses over from
his parents' house. Click here for more.

Snow elusive, but not mysterious Kashmir Snowman

Was it the visitation of the Abominable Snowman, also called Yeti by some?
Villagers in this Jammu and Kashmir village are sure it was. At least 20-year-old
Raja Wasim has no doubt it was the Snowman that attacked him.

Fondly called Raju by his parents, the young man came out of his uncle's
home to feed cattle at a cowshed. He heard a strange noise among the greens
in the lawn of the house. When he turned around, there it stood: a four-foot-tall
monster, covered with dense, dark, black hair all over, "looking menacingly"
at the youth.

Claims Raju: "The is no mistake about what I saw. The monster had the
face of a man with monkey-like features. It was four feet tall, but extremely
sturdy. It was the Snowman. "It pounced at me and I jumped back on the veranda,
shouting for help." Click here for more.

John's Comments

It is possible that the creature in the second story was an ape,judging from the description of it. However, there is another possibility
as well.

The 'veil between worlds' as it is often called, might be thinner right
now. I don't pretend to know what it is that controls this barrier, but two
sightings of Sasquatch type creatures might be a signal that our two worlds
are closer right now.

Be sure to keep your eyes and your mind open, and a good camera handy.
*grin*

Happy Valentine's from the Skunk Ape

14-Feb-2003

Hi There!

The Himalayas have the Yeti, Indonesia has the Orang- Pendek, the Pacific
Northwest has Bigfoot. But there is no crypto-primate quite like Florida's
Skunk Ape.

The skunker is famous not only for a smell so powerful that it has been
known to drive even swamp fishermen who have not bathed since childhood to
crazed flight, it is also known for raising a riot (and a few other things)
during its mating season.

According to RV Park owner David Shealy of Ochobee, Florida, two visiting
Swedish ladies have found out just what skunker mating season can mean--the
hard way.

They were peacefully fishing when they smelled something unpleasant. Then
they heard growls, and soon discovered a skunk ape in some bushes near their
rental car. The ape was in a visible state of sexual excitement.

It remained nearby for a short time, sniffing the air in a strange manner.
Once it had departed, the two ladies got in their car and, as Mr. Shealy
put it, "left in a huff."

Presumably, they are now back in Sweden. If you want to read more about
this story, click on the link below, but be warned that it contains a graphic
description of the ape's sexual state, so if that sort of thing offends you,
don't push the button.

Sunday, January 05, 2003 - EDMONDS, Wash. - After enduring decades of
ridicule, Bigfoot researchers are enjoying support from some of the world's
most respected scientists in their efforts to prove the hulking creatures
of legend are no myth.

Post / John Epperson

Richard Noll of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization photographs
a site in the North Cascades, northeast of Seattle, last month. Noll and
colleagues discovered an imprint near a mudhole where the Skookum Cast was
recorded two years ago.

The persistence of reported sightings of Bigfoot-type creatures in North
America and elsewhere has convinced leading researchers on primates - including
Jane Goodall, made famous by her studies of chimpanzees in Tanzania - to
call for something never seriously considered before: a legitimate scientific
study to determine whether the greatest apes that ever lived persist in the
world's moist mountainous regions.
(GRAPHIC:
Myth or mammal?)

Skeptics, who include those in the scientific mainstream, scoff at such
ideas. They say reported Bigfoot encounters, tracks and other evidence are
either hoaxes or mistakes, and that people who believe such nonsense are
soft-headed.

But dedicated amateurs and a smattering of professionals are trying to
change that attitude. Using accepted scientific methods, they believe they
can show at least some of the claimed evidence for Bigfoot - footprints,
hair, voice recordings and a 400-pound block of plaster known as the Skookum
Cast - are authentic traces of a rare giant primate.

Recently they have received support from a handful of the field's top
experts.

Daris Swindler, for example, is not the typical Bigfoot believer.

When he retired in 1991 after more than 30 years at the University of
Washington, Swindler was an acclaimed expert in the arcane study of fossilized
primate teeth.

His book, "An Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy," went through several printings
and was among the standard references in the field.

So it comes as a surprise to some of his peers that Swindler believes
that the Skookum Cast, discovered by amateur Bigfoot researchers in 2000,
is a genuine record of a hairy giant that sat down by a mudhole to eat some
fruit.

"Daris said that?" asked Russell Ciochon, a prominent paleoanthropologist
and professor at the University of Iowa. "He's an important figure. But I
still don't think Bigfoot exists in any form."

Mythical giant apes lurk in the traditions of nearly every Native American
linguistic group and in legends handed down through the ages from Europe
and Asia. Each year, Bigfoot or similar creatures are reported by hundreds
of hunters, hikers, motorists and others from central Asia to the central
Rockies. But no one has provided the minimum proof required by science: a
type specimen or remains that researchers can pick up, measure and argue
over.

Nevertheless, Goodall is intrigued.

"People from very different backgrounds and different parts of the world
have described very similar creatures behaving in similar ways and uttering
some strikingly similar sounds," she said. "As far as I am concerned, the
existence of hominids of this sort is a very real probability."

George Schaller, director of science at the Wildlife Conservation Society,
has spent 40 years studying rare animals in remote places, including pioneering
studies of Central Africa's mountain gorilla, which Western scientists first
discovered in 1903.

A world-famous primate researcher and author, she revealed, in studies
of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, surprising behaviors in
humanity's closest living relative. Goodall has won numerous international
awards for her contributions to conservation, anthropology and animal welfare.
Currently affiliated with Cornell University, she serves as the National
Geographic Society's explorer-in-residence.

GEORGE SCHALLER

International science director for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
His pioneering field studies of mountain gorillas set the research standard
later adopted by Goodall and gorilla researcher Dian Fosse. Schaller's 1963
book, "The Year of the Gorilla," debunked popular perceptions of the great
ape and reintroduced "King Kong" as a shy, social vegetarian.

Schaller's studies of tigers, lions, snow leopards and pandas also advanced
the knowledge of those endangered mammals.

In 1973, he won the National Book Award for "The Serengeti Lion: A Study
of Predator-Prey Relations," and in 1980 was awarded the World Wildlife Fund
Gold Medal for his contributions to the understanding and conservation of
endangered species. During the past decade, he has focused on the little-known
wildlife of Mongolia, Laos and the Tibetan Plateau.

RUSSELL MITTERMEIER

A trained primatologist, herpetologist and biological anthropologist,
he has discovered five new species of monkey, including two last year.
Mittermeier has conducted fieldwork in more than 20 countries around the
tropical world, with special emphasis on Brazil, Guyana and Madagascar.

Since 1989, Mittermeier has served as president of Conservation International,
which has become one of the most aggressive and effective conservation
organizations in the world during the last decade. His publications include
10 books and more than 300 scientific papers and popular articles.

DARIS SWINDLER

Emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, Swindler
is a leading expert on living and fossil primate teeth and one of the top
primate anatomists in general. His book, "An Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy,"
has become a standard reference in the field. A forensic anthropologist,
Swindler worked on the Ted Bundy and Green River murder cases along with
hundreds of others.

ESTEBAN SARMIENTO

A functional anatomist affiliated with the American Museum of Natural
History, Sarmiento focuses on the skeletons of hominids. In 2001, he participated
with George Schaller in a search for Congo's Bili ape, a possible species
super-chimp reported by natives but unknown to Western science. Sarmiento
has also studied the Cross River gorilla, a critically endangered subspecies
on the Nigeria-Cameroon border whose population is thought to be numbered
in the hundreds. He has taught in the U.S., South Africa and Uganda.

Schaller remains troubled by the fact no Bigfoot remains have been produced,
nor have any samples of feces whose DNA can be chemically poked and prodded
to unlock the identity of their maker. And he is mindful of hoaxing.

But he, too, considers Bigfoot an open question.

"There have been so many sightings over the years," he said. "Even if
you throw out 95 percent of them, there ought to be some explanation for
the rest. The same goes for some of these tracks."

"I think a hard-eyed look is absolutely essential," he concludes.

The most common evidence allegedly left by these animals are the footprints:
big prints in remote locations, some deeply pressed in sand or gravel firm
enough for a grown man to pass without leaving a trace. Some footprints,
like those Ray Wallace's family claim he left near Bluff Creek, Calif., in
the late 1950s, are hoaxed. Many more are too vague to be conclusive. But
a few are so detailed and anatomically accurate that they baffle the
experts.

"Either the forgers are spending an awful lot of time on this, or there
is reason to give this evidence another look," said primate researcher Esteban
Sarmiento of the American Museum of Natural History. "I think a serious
scientific inquiry is definitely warranted."

Skeptics argue that large mammals, particularly great apes, simply aren't
discovered anymore. Not true, says Russell Mittermeier, vice president of
Conservation International, who has co-authored scientific papers describing
five new primates.

Since the 1990s there have been several spectacular finds, he said, including
the antelope-like spindlehorn from Vietnam and a South American peccary thought
to have gone extinct thousands of years ago.

"I'm not one to pooh-pooh the potential that these large apes may exist,"
Mittermeier said. "I guess you could say I'm mildly skeptical but guardedly
optimistic. Whoever does find it will have the discovery of the century."

Words of encouragement like these are music to Bigfoot researchers'
ears.

"My whole motivation has not been to convince anybody of the existence
of the animal, but to convince them that there's a body of evidence begging
for further consideration," said Idaho State University professor Jeff Meldrum,
whose expertise in primate locomotion led him to become one of the few academics
openly researching Bigfoot tracks.

"This is immense," said author John Green, who has tracked Bigfoot reports
for almost half a century from British Columbia and investigated some of
the most famous sightings and track finds. "The possibility that there could
be a real animal behind it just didn't occur to scientists 20 years ago."

The flap over recent claims of Bigfoot hoaxing has not deterred Swindler.
But the lack of a body plus the acknowledgment of at least some hoaxing adds
up to too many questions for Ciochon.

Like that of Swindler, Ciochon's work focuses on fossilized primate teeth,
but of a very special species: Gigantopithecus blacki, the giant Asian ape
of the Miocene epoch, which lasted from about 24 million to 5 million years
ago.

Most Bigfoot supporters advance Gigantopithecus, or Giganto for short,
as the likely ancestor of Bigfoot, if not the hairy beast itself. It's a
tantalizing but entirely unproven link that drives Ciochon to distraction.

Ciochon thinks his study subject, which co-existed with the human ancestor
Homo erectus for hundreds of thousands of years, may well be the archetypal
inspiration for the "boogeyman" and other nocturnal monsters that populate
the traditions of aboriginal cultures from Nepal to North America.

But he vigorously rejects any suggestion that Giganto, which he thinks
was a specialized, bamboo-eating vegetarian, could persist today.

And he worries that the hotly contested grants that fund his work overseas
may go elsewhere if the stigma of the shambling sasquatch of Native American
lore attaches to his study subject.

"My biggest problem is there's no evidence, other than conjectural hair
and these footprints, some of which we know are faked," Ciochon said.

"If someone finds a skeleton, I'll be there in a nanosecond," he said.
"But that's what it's going to take to get me to change my mind."

"There are so many problems," agrees Swindler, who six years ago told
a USA Today reporter to count him among the skeptics.

But as he examines the Skookum Cast on a rainy December afternoon in this
Seattle suburb, Swindler points out landmarks in the lumpy landscape: a hairy
forearm the size of a small ham, an enormous hairy thigh, an outsized buttock,
and a striking impression he feels confident was made by the Achilles tendon
and heel of a creature that is not supposed to exist.

"Whatever made this was very well adapted to walking on two feet," he
said. "It's not conclusive, but it's consistent with what you'd expect to
see if a giant biped sat down in the mud."

Swindler hopes that his assessment of the Skookum Cast, and a Discovery
Channel documentary set to air Thursday, will generate support for further
research.

The key, Schaller said, will be finding dedicated amateurs willing to
spend months or years in the field with cameras. "So far, no one has done
that," he said.

It was a group of dedicated amateurs that discovered the Skookum Cast.
A team of volunteers from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization had
spent two days in Washington state's Gifford Pinchot National Forest, putting
out pheromone-basted plastic chips during the day and blasting sasquatch
calls at night in an attempt to attract an animal.

On the second night, researchers heard a powerful reply to their broadcasts,
said Richard Noll, an aerospace toolmaker who has spent 30 years researching
the mystery. The next morning, Noll was stunned to realize that an unusual
impression of a large animal on the edge of a mudhole near their camp could
have been left by their elusive quarry.

"An elk will gather their feet under them when they get up," he said.
"But there are no elk hoofprints in the center of the cast."

Meldrum and Swindler concur there are only two logical explanations for
the cast: Bigfoot and elk. And they have also ruled out elk.

John Mionczynski, a wildlife researcher who has spent 30 summers studying
bighorn herds in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains, has his own reasons for
believing in Bigfoot.

On a moonlit summer night in 1972, he backhanded an animal he thought
was a bear as it sniffed at a bacon stain in his tent, then watched as the
silhouette of a giant, shaggy arm with a broad hand at the end swept toward
his tent, collapsing it on him.

"That hand was three times as wide as mine and had an opposed thumb that
stuck out as plain as day," Mionczynski said.

He spent the rest of the night huddled by the fire with a revolver in
his hand as the creature lobbed pine cones at him from the dark woods behind
his tent.

"That pretty much eliminated bears," Mionczynski said.

Mionczynski is working on a contraption of tiny hooks and barbed wire
that he intends to place near seasonal foods he thinks sasquatch depend on.
He hopes the snare will let him get a DNA sample.

North of Seattle, Noll is collaborating with Owen Caddy, a former Ugandan
park ranger who studied chimpanzees in the mid-1990s.

For the last 18 months, they've scoured certain sandbars on a north Cascades
river, documenting more than 30 suspected sasquatch footprints they believe
were made by a mother and two young. They hope to identify the animals' food
sources and travel corridors, then set out a picket line of infrared camera
traps.

"I feel the animal is out there, and I don't hedge on that," Caddy said.
"I've found physical evidence myself, and I'm confident in my analysis of
it.

"Something is making these tracks, and it's not people."

SEARCH FOR BIGFOOT OUTLIVES THE MAN WHO CREATED HIM
By Timothy Egan
New York Times
January 3, 2003

SEATTLE, Jan. 2 ‹ No region in the country has a lower percentage of
churchgoers than the Pacific Northwest. But ask people here about the
existence of a camera-resistant, grooming-challenged, upright biped known
as Bigfoot or Sasquatch and the true believers shout to the misty heavens
in affirmation.

So it came as a considerable blow when the children of Ray L. Wallace
announced that their prank-loving pop had created the modern myth of
Bigfoot when he used a pair of carved wooden feet to stomp a track of
oversized footprints in a Northern California logging camp in 1958. Mr.
Wallace, 84, died on Nov. 26 at a nursing home in Centralia, Wash.

"This wasn't a well-planned plot or anything," said Michael
Wallace, one of Ray's sons. "It's weird because it was just a joke,
and then it took on such a life of its own that even now, we can't stop
it."

Bigfoot defenders, including at least two scientists and a clinical
psychologist who says he ran into the Big Guy two years ago in southern
Oregon, are undeterred.

They give Mr. Wallace credit for the hoax, which led to news stories
around the world and began thousands of campfire debates. But, they say,
other evidence is too strong to let a prank kill something that has become
ingrained in the culture.

And, curiously, the death of the original Bigfoot comes at a time when he
has been making more appearances than Elvis.

In the Northwest, the hirsute hominid, who dates to American Indian lore
as Sasquatch, is a minor industry. A publisher -- Sasquatch Books -- and
an N.B.A. team mascot -- Squatch of the Seattle Supersonics -- are both
named for the ape-like primate. Several organizations host regular
conferences on the subject. There are field guides for tracking Bigfoot,
music tapes and CD's with his sounds (a low, heavy-breathing moan, not
unlike a winded Homer Simpson), and innumerable works of art inspired by
his shaggy essence.

To say that Bigfoot is dead, and existed only as a set of wooden feet,
is like saying there is no serpent in the depths of Loch Ness, or that
Babe Ruth did not lay a curse on the Red Sox after being sold to the
Yankees.

"All it means is that Ray Wallace is dead, not Bigfoot," said
Dr. Wolf Henner Fahrenbach, a zoologist in the Portland area who is
retired from the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center.

Mr. Wallace loved to play jokes, and no prank was bigger than the one he
put together in 1958 outside a logging camp in Humboldt County, Calif.
Though some Bigfoot believers had long suspected that Mr. Wallace created
the tracks, he kept his secret, and his family never confirmed it until
his death.

Michael Wallace said his father had a friend carve the feet. Then he had a
truck drive him slowly, to create a large gait, as he stomped the prints
in the ground. It created a sensation in the press and made Humboldt
County prime habitat and ground zero for hunters and hoaxers alike.

Dr. Fahrenbach has tried to prove -- by DNA analysis of hair samples --
that Bigfoot is a species heretofore unknown to science. To date, he has
come up empty, which he attributes to fragmented DNA.

But Dr. Fahrenbach has done an extensive analysis of 706 footprints,
and has concluded that the average length of the animal's foot is 15.6
inches and that an adult Sasquatch can weigh up to 2,000 pounds.

"Sasquatch feet grow in substantial excess of general body
dimensions," Dr. Fahrenbach wrote in one study. "Hence the
justifiable moniker Bigfoot."

It may seem remarkable that Ray Wallace's staged footprints, which appear
to have launched the term "Bigfoot" into popular idiom, were
within an inch or so of the other prints, but Dr. Fahrenbach is unfazed.

"I've gotten close enough to smell him," said Dr. Fahrenbach,
recounting a backpacking trip to a remote valley in the North Cascades of
Washington.

How did he know precisely what eau de Sasquatch smelled like? "I
didn't at the time," he said, "but I was later able to match the
smell with other descriptions."

Nor has the Wallace family's revelation altered the views of Dr. Jeffrey
Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University
in Pocatello. Dr. Meldrum is perhaps the only active academic supporter of
Bigfoot, a position that he said had brought everything from open ridicule
to curious sympathy from his colleagues.

Dr. Meldrum said he was a skeptic until he saw Bigfoot prints, then began
collecting and analyzing them. Some are easily identified as hoaxes, he
said, but other defy explanation.

"What concerns me about the Ray Wallace story is that it puts a
damper on legitimate researchers," Dr. Meldrum said. "They're
seen as kooks or cranks. But what it actually does is steel them all the
more."

Dr. Meldrum and Dr. Fahrenbach may have some academic investment in
Bigfoot, but Dr. Matthew Johnson, a clinical psychologist from Grants
Pass, Ore., said his conviction could not be dismissed as scholarly bias.

Dr. Johnson said he was too big -- 6 feet 9 inches tall -- too educated,
and too familiar with the outdoors after living in Alaska for years to be
fooled by some guy in an ape suit, or a logger with wooden feet.

"I've never had a U.F.O. encounter and have not seen the Loch Ness
monster," he said. "I was just a husband and father out for a
hike."

Two years ago, while hiking with his family in the Oregon Caves
National Monument, Dr. Johnson said, he ventured off to the side of a
trail, looked up to some trees and stared, eye to eye with Bigfoot. He
reported his find to the National Park Service.

"Ray Wallace may have indeed hoaxed his own tracks," Dr. Johnson
said. "But I can guarantee you that Ray Wallace was not walking
around in a nine-foot Bigfoot suit in the Oregon Caves at the age of 82.
What I saw was real."

Since the encounter, Dr. Johnson, now president of the Southern Oregon
Bigfoot Society, has led numerous outings to feed and track Bigfoot. He
leaves bananas and husked corn for the animal.

What nearly all Bigfoot stories lack is proof: a skeleton or a body, or a
picture or film beyond dispute. Bigfoot is among the most camera-elusive
of beings.

Supporters note that it is rare to find a carcass or skeleton of a grizzly
bear in the wild. True. But grizzlies have never escaped photographic
documentation.

What remains as the Holy Grail for believers is a home movie made in 1967
by an amateur Bigfoot hunter, Roger Patterson, who has since taken his
secret to the grave. Filmed in the Six Rivers National Forest in Northern
California, not far from where Ray Wallace laid his tracks, the short film
shows a bewildered-looking apeman walking upright, while glancing at the
camera.

The film has its believers, Dr. Meldrum and Dr. Fahrenbach among them.
And it has its detractors, including Cliff Crook, who has sought the
mythic beast for 45 years.

"I get beat up for saying this, but the Patterson film is a
fake," Mr. Crook, who heads a group of like-minded enthusiasts called
Bigfoot Central from his home near Seattle.

He is not moved by the Ray Wallace family confession. "Most of us
knew he had faked those tracks," Mr. Crook said.

So they soldier on, tramping through the woods, spreading bananas and
taking plaster casts of tracks, sniffing the air for a telltale stench of
something that has gone a long time without bathing.

To all the searchers, the Wallaces say Godspeed. "As long as Dad was
alive, he was Bigfoot," Michael Wallace said. "He may be gone,
but I still think people should keep looking."

Moorhead man has been hunting bigfoot for 16 years

11-3-2002

MOORHEAD, MINN. -- If a bigfoot is living in the dense, wooded areas of
Minnesota, Mike Quast hopes to be the one who finds it.

Quast, 34, who lives in Moorhead and works for a custodial company, has
his work cut out for him.

First of all, most people scoff at the existence of such a creature. And
second, most of the people who believe in the existence of a bigfoot-like
creature are searching for it in the Pacific Northwest.

Quast's belief stems from his own sighting. It happened in 1976, when
Quast was 8 years old. He was in a car with his parents when he saw what
he believes was a bigfoot. or sasquatch. They were driving near Strawberry
Lake, on the White Earth Indian Reservation north of Detroit Lakes.

"I was kind of stunned and didn't say anything for a while," Quast said.
"I told my parents later, and they didn't take it too seriously."

His mission began when he graduated from high school in 1986. Since then,
he's collected stories from people who claim to have seen a bigfoot, and
he's hunted for the creature. He's collected his observations and reports
in a book called "The Sasquatch in Minnesota."

"When I first started looking into it and reading all the books, there
were nine reports of sightings in Minnesota, but the official records were
really incomplete," he said.

Car attacked

The first story he ever investigated was about a creature that was seen
in the Vergas, Minn., area.

"There was an urban legend story going around there about the hairy man
that I heard about from my brother-in-law," Quast said. "He said he knew
someone who had seen it."

Quast tracked down a mechanic who told him that when he was a teenager
in 1968 he and his brother and his brother's girlfriend were driving around
in a wooded area near Vergas and that a creature leaped out at them. When
they turned the car around to get another look at it, it attacked their
car.

They later found a large dent in the trunk lid. They described the creature
as weighing about 300 pounds and standing 7 or 8 feet tall.

"He said it had a face like a gorilla and an upright body like a man,
and it was covered with hair, a standard bigfoot description," Quast said.

The townspeople built a story around it, saying that it was some crazy
hermit who lived in the woods.

"They started to hunt for the thing over the next few months, and they
saw it a couple of more times, running at night," he said.

They never saw the creature in the winter, so they figured it was hibernating.
Then one spring, they found a shack with a hole dug under it. It smelled
like a dead animal so they burned the shack down.

"I heard about other stories, and I started searching the area," Quast
said.

Different sizes

Quast spent much time searching the Vergas area.

"In August of 1989 I found what I believe were bigfoot tracks."

The tracks were 16 inches long with three toes. He made plaster casts
of the tracks. In August 1970 he found a set that was 20 inches long, and,
over time, he's found three different sets of tracks, one only 12 inches
long.

"I thought it might have been a small family group that passed through
the area once in a while," he said.

"I haven't found anything there in recent years because there's been a
lot of development out there," he said. "It's still a woods, but it isn't
as wild as it used to be."

Then, in the early 1990s, Quast met a trapper who lived near Zerkel, east
of Mahnomen in Clearwater County.

"He found some tracks on his property that he couldn't explain," Quast
said.

The tracks were of a two-legged creature, but they weren't typical bigfoot
or human tracks. The tracks were circular with two large toes and, where
the three other toes should have been, there was an impression of hair growing
under the toes. Tracks were found of slightly different sizes, and Quast
speculates the tracks were from a subspecies of bigfoot.

"The DNR suggested he get in touch with me," Quast said. "It became a
fascination with him too."

The trapper found the first set of tracks in December 1990 and more tracks
in March 1991.

"The tracks turned up again, and there were a lot more of them the second
time," Quast said. "He thought he saw close to 2,000 tracks that day."

The trapper put up notices around town and started asking people in the
area if they had seen anything.

"Other people had seen tracks, and there were sightings over the years,"
Quast said.

Scream in the night

The trapper became the best source of information Quast ever had, and
Quast spent a lot of time searching on the trapper's property, even after
he died more than a year ago.

"During the time I knew him, there were occasional reports, and he found
more tracks," Quast said. "After a while, he started finding the more common
type of tracks with the more human type of foot. Many of the tracks were
smaller, indicating they were from a young bigfoot."

Since then Quast has concentrated his bigfoot hunt in the White Earth
State Forest in Clearwater County in a heavily forested area the locals call
the Buckboard Hills.

One night when Quast was camping on the trapper's property he heard what
he believes was a bigfoot.

"If you study the bigfoot literature, they describe the sound as a scream,
and I think that I heard it one night when I was camping there," he said.
"At about 10 at night, this noise just came out of nowhere. It was so loud,
the woods just shook with it, and I remember feeling very alone and very
vulnerable out there, at that time. I think there were two of them calling
back and forth to each other, because I heard it come from two different
areas."

Quast said he will keep searching until he has proof that bigfoot
exists.

"I think one of the main reasons why science doesn't take this animal
seriously is because we have labeled it a monster, and nobody is supposed
to believe in monsters," he said. "If it had just been thought of as a new
species of wildlife, there would have been scientists out there looking for
it."

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North American skeptics take note -- in 1976-77, the Chinese Government
sponsored a yeren (wildman) -- commonly known to the West as Bigfoot --
expedition to Shennongjia Mountain Forest in central Hubei Province
consisting of 100 people, including army personnel.

That trip and others have produced numerous samples of what Yuan
Zhenxin, a well-known paleoanthropologist from the Chinese Academy of
Sciences, claims are the hair, footprints and feces of an undiscovered
species, possibly the missing link between man and ape -- the wildman.

Eye-witness reports describe the wildman as about 9 feet tall, with
five-toed feet measuring some 40 centimetres in length, red hair and
terrible body odour. He is apparently a vegetarian who prefers
corn-on-the-cob.

Since the 1970s, government sponsored expeditions have managed to detail
scores of wildman sightings among local residents, although the wildman
himself continues to shy away from both outsiders and cameras,
complicating independent verification.

However, scientists remain resolute in their investigations. According to
a August 2, 1988 report in Shanghai's Wenhui Bao, an analysis of hair
samples allegedly taken from the wildman prove he exists.

And wildman is not alone.

Yuan believes some 1,000 to 2,000 of these Chinese Bigfoot creatures are
currently roaming the dense forests of Hubei's mountain area --
interactions with locals have ranged from crude attempts at communication
to encounters of a more personal nature. Yuan notes that he has personally
investigated stories of abduction, including two cases where farmers were
kidnapped by
the creature but managed to escape. Yuan fails to elaborate on the nature
of these abductions, but according to victims of wildman's American
cousin, Bigfoot, the creature has a voracious sexual appetite.

Some critics will inevitably attribute these sightings to poisonous
Western influences, however they would be wrong. Reported sightings of the
wildman date back thousands of years before China had any contact with the
West.

A statesman-poet named Qu Yuan who lived in the third century BC in the
Shennongjia area referred to "mountain ogres" in his verses.
While a seventh century historian described a tribe of "hairy
men" living in the same region, and an 18th century poet spoke of a
creature "monkey-like yet not monkey" in adjoining Shaanxi
province.

Liu Minzhuang, a biology lecturer in Shanghai who has been researching
wildman for more than 20 years, notes the convincing testimony of one old
peasant. According to the elderly witness, he accompanied Kuomintang
soldiers as they tracked eight wildmen through thick forests for 10 days
in 1947. One wildman was eventually killed and dismembered by the
soldiers, the
peasant said, but records of the incident were lost in the chaos of the
civil war.

Such violent encounters may explain the wildman's reluctance to mix
socially with the human species. Perhaps the wildman is a distant hominid
cousin of homo sapiens from some lost prehistoric era who has already
survived tough lessons. Should it surprise us that the wildman would go to
extremes to avoid contact? Considering recent events -- from the September
11 attacks to
the bombing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan -- how can we feign
surprise.

May 23, 2002

Team 2: Tracking Bigfoot

MT. ST. HELENS - These footprints (left) could be proof that the creature
known as "Bigfoot" existed.

A California man says this giant, fossilized footprint suggests the legend
is true. He discovered it among rocky terrain while he was looking for
gold.

And more evidence suggests the creature known as Sasquatch could still
be alive today.

In the past month there have been two Bigfoot sightings near Mt. St. Helens.

KATU's Ed Teachout set out to investigate what one man says he not only
saw, but attempted to catch.

"I get down here and he's peeking through the trees," Jerry Kelso told
KATU.

Kelso couldn't believe what he saw with his family last Saturday near
Mt. St. Helens.

While his wife and 2-year-old waited in the car, Kelso chased after what
he originally thought was a man in a suit pulling a stunt.

"And he's standing about 40 yards over there, and when I broke through
I went, 'Wow' and my wife starts screaming," said Kelso.

But as Kelso got closer he says began to believe he was face to face with
the real thing--Bigfoot.

"He was about six foot, six foot one, very dark brown almost a black and
hairy all over," said Kelso.

That didn't stop Kelso. He says he continued to chase the thing until
he says he saw he was carrying a club.

"That," said Kelso, is when he knew, "it was a Sasquatch, what else?"

Not believing his story, we followed the trail the beast allegedly took.
We found signs of elk and maybe bear.

"It's been eating grass whatever it is," said Kelso.

Then Kelso and KATU's Ed Teachout found a track that looked like nothing
we've seen in the woods before.

"That looks like a track there. That's not a human foot," said Teachout.

Kelso, who's an aerospace consultant, says he wouldn't have told a soul,
but after hearing another man had sighted a Bigfoot 10 days before, a mile
from where he sighted his, he decided to speak up.

Though his creature looked similar to what others say they've seen before,
this creature reportedly was smaller and didn't smell at all.

After getting back into the car, Kelso wanted to chase the thing, he said,
but his wife forbade him.

"She was very scared," said Kelso. "I guess I think I'm tough or something
you know. I've been hurt too many times to worry about some little guy with
a club," Kelso said.

So the elusive Bigfoot gets away again leaving only his footprint and
legend behind.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers' Organization is making castings of the
footprints and interviewing people who live in the area.

Search for Bigfoot a tall order
Documentary filmmaker getting scientific in quest for Sasquatch

Associated Press

BOISE -- The hunt for Sasquatch, aka Bigfoot, in the gloomy rainforests
of the Pacific Northwest has always involved a little bit of science and
a great deal of bluster about supposed encounters with a North American
ape.

A producer of films for the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet has consulted
with Idaho State University anatomy professor Jeff Meldrum and other experts
on a documentary that hammers the myth with a lot of science.

''I just want some darn answers that at least come from a position of
research and knowledge,'' said Douglas Hajicek of Whitewolf Entertainment
in Minnesota.

Hajicek is filming ''Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science,'' which is scheduled
to air on Discovery in November.

Sasquatch has been part of Indian legends for centuries. The name is
the English version of the Salish Tribe's word for wild man, or hairy man.

Like other people who have taken up the hunt, Hajicek's journey started
when he glimpsed some tracks. He was at Selwynn Lake in Canada's Northwest
Territories filming giant trout. But he spotted some giant footprints, about
18 inches long.

''They went through gravel, beach sand, dirt, moss,'' he said. ''It was
incredible the depth of them, even in the gravel. I was told by the guides
there were no grizzlies there, no polar bears -- and I know bear tracks.''

Meldrum also documented a trail of more than 40 footprints he encountered
along a muddy road adjacent to the Umatilla National Forest near Walla
Walla.

An expert in primate locomotion, Meldrum said those tracks and others
appeared to have been left by a biped whose feet are much more flexible than
the human foot, with a high arch and better adapted for mountain terrain.
They would be as tall as 10 feet and weigh 1,000 pounds.

Hajicek examines several supposed close encounters with the hairy humanoid
over the last 40 years.

In October 1967, Roger Patterson claimed to have captured on film a female
Bigfoot retreating across a sandbar in northern California. Skeptics have
passed off the fuzzy film as a man in a monkey suit.

Hajicek took the footage and ran it through highresolution equipment
to highlight the limbs as the subject walks. The resulting computerized
anatomical model is seen from several angles, including from above.

''The film shows tons of muscles expanding and contracting,'' he said.
''If it's a guy in a suit, he had to be attached to the skin.''

In 1996, campers at a northern Washington lake filmed a subject racing
over boulder-strewn ground. Meldrum said it appears to pick up a young Bigfoot
and set it on its shoulder.

Hajicek will employ high-resolution scanners on the same site, contrasting
his footage with the original one. He also will employ a track star to run
across the same route to compare the speed.

In 2000, a group of Bigfoot hunters near Mount Adams in Washington set
out apples as bait and played recordings of the creature.They said Bigfoot
called back to them and left an indentation in the mud at the bait which
seems to show the hindquarters, forearm and Achilles' tendon of a large
primate.

They made a plaster cast of the indentation, and Hajicek is having hairs
that were embedded in the cast and saliva on the fruit analyzed for DNA.
Sound recordings made at the site also are under study.

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BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Imagine this: a hairy, six-foot monster,
howling and stinking of death, crossing your path in the semi-darkness
under the canopy of the mighty Amazon jungle.

Among Amazon Indians, legend has it that such a creature stalks the
forests like a tropical Abominable Snowman -- never photographed or
captured.

The animal species called "Mapinguari,'" or giant defenders of
the forests, by the Indians, is also known to the thousands of hunters
that brave the forests every year. One such person, Joao Batista Azevedo,
says he saw a Mapinguari 20 years ago after a 45-day canoe ride from the
nearest village.

"I was working by the river when I heard a scream, a horrible
scream," the now 70-year-old Azevedo told Reuters by telephone from
his remote Amazon village. "Suddenly something looking like a man
came out of the forest, all covered in hair. He was walking on two legs
and thank God he did not come toward us. I will always remember that
day."

Veteran Amazon ornithologist David Oren takes such stories very
seriously. So much, in fact, that since 1988 he has been on a quest to
find one of the creatures in the name of science and has led several
expeditions into the depths of the world's largest rain forest to hunt
for it.

"It's still being sited regularly. Several people think they came
face to face with the Devil in the forest," he says of people like
Azevedo who have
helped guide him on his search. He believes there are dozens left.

Oren's theory is that the beast could be the world's last living giant
ground sloth -- a distant relative of existing tree sloths -- that
became
extinct more than 10,000 years ago.

That belief has cost him dearly, he says, in the often conservative
scientific community where reputation is everything. The National
Geographic
Society turned him down and he has funded his expeditions largely
with his
own money.

Paul Martin, a Meritus Professor of Geosciences at the University of
Arizona
and leading expert on the theory that humans were responsible for the
extinction of such animals as the giant ground sloth, is one skeptic.

13,000 YEARS TOO LATE?

"I think he is 13,000 years too late. This sure does sound like the
hunt for
a Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster," Martin said. "The part of
me that is
completely romantic is rooting for David Oren. But where the science
part of
me is concerned I don't give him a chance."

Oren argues that a kind of giant ground sloth could still be alive in
the
Amazon because the forests offer huge, remote areas providing the
necessary
isolation to survive. Thick and impenetrable, the Amazon's continuous
forest
covers an area larger than all of Western Europe and is home to up to 30
percent of the world's animal and plant life.

Scientists say giant ground sloths were in abundance across the
Americas,
evidenced by fossil finds of such creatures in places as far apart as
Patagonia in the south to the northwest of the United States.

The beast could have moved to the Amazon to escape hunting and
encroachment
of man on its natural habitat elsewhere.

Claudio Padua, a doctor of ecology who teaches at the University of
Brasilia, is one of the few scientists prepared to believe Oren because
the
Amazon is still hiding thousands of undiscovered species.

"It would be the find of the century, it would have an
extraordinary impact"
if found, said Padua.

He points out that 10 species of monkeys were discovered in the Amazon
in
the last decade. "As a scientist I accept that everything is
possible until
there is proof to the contrary," he said.

FOREMOST RESEARCH CENTER

Generally a well-respected scientist, Oren is originally American but
now
carries a Brazilian passport. He first came to the Amazon in 1977 and
for
years worked for the Emilio Goeldi Museum in Belem -- one of Brazil's
foremost Amazon research centers.

While he plugged away mapping the biological makeup of the Amazon, his
fame
may be best-connected with the Mapinguari.

Oren moved this year from Belem to take up a post with U.S.
environmental
group Nature Conservancy in Brasilia, thousands of miles from the
Amazon,
making it very difficult for him to hunt the Mapinguari. So has he lost
his
belief?

Not at all, he says. Indeed in June, just after leaving, he wrote his
second
scientific article in a decade on the beast, presenting all his
evidence.

"When I wrote the 1993 paper, I had never interviewed anyone who
had claimed
to have killed one of these supposed animals," he wrote in the
newsletter of
the World Conservation Union's Edentate Specialist Group.

He has now talked to seven hunters who claim to have shot the animal and
another 80 people who have seen it, he says.

"What they describe: a creature approximately two meters (six feet)
tall
when standing upright; a very strong, unpleasant smell; extremely heavy
and
powerful build; capable of breaking thick roots with its
footsteps," the
article says.

Most likely a defense mechanism, the smell is described by some
witnesses as
a mixture of feces and rotting flesh.

Oren says the beast has long coarse fur, four large teeth and that it
moves
on two or four legs. It also has an "extremely loud, roaring
vocalization
... similar to a human calling loudly, but with a growl at the
end."

In fact, on his expeditions, Oren says he himself yelled into the
darkness
and it howled back to him.

In his Brasilia villa, Oren keeps more evidence that includes a clay
mold of
a footprint, about an inch deep, with three large toes. The toes face
backward because the creature walks on its knuckles, he says.

A series of pictures includes a photo of claw marks on a tree, eight of
them
about a foot long and an inch deep.

But there are big holes in the story. For one, the hunters who say they
shot
it did not keep any fragment of the creature, apparently throwing the
parts
away due to the strong stench.

Oren remains convinced though, arguing that the story needs to be widely
published to ensure that if one is shot again its remains are inspected
by
scientists.

And despite the skepticism of many, there's no doubt scientists are
fascinated by Oren's hunt.

"I'd be thrilled out of my mind if he (Oren) succeeded, it would be
in my
wildest dreams," said Martin. "We (humans) resonate with these
large
animals, so everybody in town is going to feel the emotion of such a
find."

The team has discovered a footprint and hair samples of a primate which has
long lived in the mythology of tribes people in Western Sumatra.

A cast of the footprint and strands of coarse hair are being sent to research
institutes at Oxford University and the University of Canberra in Australia
for verification.

If the finds are substantiated, they could provide valuable scientific clues
to an unidentified creature which could hold the key to the missing link
between humans and apes.

Andrew Sanderson, Newcastle upon Tyne, Adam Davies from Stockport, and Keith
Towley from Macclesfield, spent three weeks in the rainforests tracking a
creature called Orang Pendek -- meaning 'Little Man of the Forest'.
Sightings on the island describe the creature as being 5ft tall with
chocolate-brown, orange hair. It's distinguishing feature is its humanlike
gait - walking upright on its back legs without the aid of its front fists.

Crypto-zoologist Mr Sanderson said: "Over the years there have been many
sightings of the yeti, but no one has actually come up with any concrete
evidence. We seem to be the first people to do that.

"We didn't see the creature ourselves but we tracked it for several weeks
and we managed to make a plaster cast of one of its footprints. It is absolutely
perfect and experts are already beginning to get excited about it."

A digital re-print of the footprint has been sent to Colin Groves, a professor
of primatology at the University of Canberra. The hair samples are being
sent to the micro biology unit at Oxford University. The group hope that
DNA testing will prove the existence of a previously undiscovered primate.

Despite the potential scepticism for such a find, the team remain confident
that their discovery is unique.

Three concrete molds of large feet lie in the grass at the base of
Richard Knoll's truck. They're about the size of a frying pan, and stand
out distinctly against the dry, brown grass. Knoll says they are
impressions left behind by Bigfoot as it walked alongside a riverbank
somewhere in the dark recesses of the Pacific Northwest. He won't say
exactly where. It's claimed by believers like Knoll that Bigfoot, also
known as Sasquatch, is a living species of giant primate. The annual
Bigfoot Daze conference, held on the fringes of Carson, a small town in
Washington state, is a gathering point for a loose community of
Sasquatch enthusiasts. Knoll arrived the day before and, in the late
afternoon, explained to a group of about 50 believers how to determine
whether a footprint is a hoax.

Like hundreds of other Bigfoot enthusiasts, Knoll is fiercely
independent, but at the same time drawn to a community that provides a
stage for him to express his unwavering belief that Bigfoot is out there
somewhere, waiting to be discovered.

"It would be kind of sad if we found Bigfoot," Knoll says
suddenly, unexpectedly. "Without the possibility of Bigfoot there
is no wilderness left." He pauses again and adds, "The
possibility of Bigfoot is the possibility of wilderness."

Whether it's a shadow in the wilderness that can't be explained, or a
strange noise in the dark, Bigfoot is about believing. A smattering of
Bigfoot enthusiasts have coalesced into a small but energetic group of
believers over the last 15 years. There were 15 bona fide organizations
around North America by 1998, with an estimated 2,000 self-proclaimed
Bigfoot seekers -- almost as many as the number of Bigfoot supposedly
roaming the backcountry.
There's a group of neighbors in Placerville, Calif., who routinely meet
and talk about Bigfoot's whereabouts in Northern California. In
Washington, a man named Cliff Crook signed up his wife and son to form
Bigfoot Central. Even in Maine (about as far away from Bigfoot in the
U.S. as one can get), a group of so-called crypto-zoologists pour over
hair follicles, footprints and a grab bag of evidence.

Here in Oregon, the self-proclaimed largest Sasquatch organization in
the world, the Western Bigfoot Society (WBS), meets for lunch every
Tuesday at the Lighthouse Café in the blue-collar town of Linton, about
five miles north of Portland. The numbers attending vary from 4 to 15.

"I don't know why we started meeting on Tuesdays," says WBS
director Ray Crowe. "I think it started because I had something to
do the other days of the week."

At the lunch meetings, the subject of Bigfoot is almost as elusive as
the creature itself, bobbing in and out of conversation about the
members' grandchildren and the Lighthouse lunch specials.

About 10 people are seated around a heavy oak table at my first meeting
with the WBS. "I'm not a believer or a nonbeliever," claims
Lloyd, a retired veterinarian. He wears a wide-brimmed hat and has the
personality of a kind uncle who pulls quarters from your ear. He goes on
to tell me that for centuries, there were rumors about giant
black-and-white bears roaming the alpine hinterlands of China. Then, in
1936, the first panda bear was captured. "It was all bullshit until
then," he says. "There is new stuff out there all of the
time."

Lloyd jerks a thumb toward the densely green hills flanking the
restaurant. "There are millions of acres of forest," he says.
"You could hide an elephant up there."

These people are chummy -- Bigfoot is both a reason and an excuse for
meeting. While the reality of the beast may be a bit hazy, the idea of
it remains enough of a core for this motley subculture.

"This is the last, greatest hunt in the world," says Sam.
"It gives us a reason to look at the hills differently." In
1993, Sam (who prefers not to use his real name) spotted what he
believes were three Bigfoot standing in a quarry at the base of Saddle
Mountain, near Seaside. But even he has his doubts. "To a lot of
people I have to ask: Are you really trying to find this thing or are
you just enjoying a mystery?"

Paradoxically, as long as Bigfoot is never captured, these groups will
have a reason to exist. Until then, there are no absolute answers for
those attending these meetings, only speculative questions: Is Bigfoot a
herbivore or a carnivore? Friendly or mean? And, well, does he even
exist?

Any gathering of humans develops its own invisible hierarchies and rules
for belonging, from sorority girls to NASA. The interior dynamics of the
Bigfoot community are no different, with gripes ranging from petty
personality conflicts to serious theoretical disputes.

Even the amiable and polite Crowe has his detractors. They believe
that putting an open and public face on the Bigfoot community plays too
much into the general public's perceptions about the creature. After
years of ridicule, from tabloids claiming that Sasquatch has taken
Marilyn Monroe as his bride to Nike using the elusive beast as a foot
model for a national television campaign, there is a discernible opinion
that the community should shield itself from the public and shape its
image. One longtime tracker stopped attending the annual Bigfoot Daze
after Crowe organized a wedding ceremony two years ago, where the groom
wore a gorilla suit. "He's playing into the parody factor,"
said the detractor, who preferred to stay anonymous.

Knoll, a globally recognized engineer from Edmund, Wash., bemoans that
Crowe "just collects information." To Knoll, who painstakingly
tries to filter reliable accounts from the hoaxes and
"crazies," such an approach is undisciplined. "He just
presents what he gets and doesn't analyze it." There is no common
profile of a Bigfoot enthusiast, but most are earnest, over 40 and
financially stable. Many have advanced degrees and enjoy the outdoors.
Some have a military background. What's more, simple "willingness
to believe" is not necessarily a ticket to join this group.
"There is no clear policy," concludes one insider, referring
to the unspoken rules that govern admission. But clearly, he continues,
some people get "cold shouldered." Among the cold-shouldered
are UFO "weirdos" ("they give the
whole thing a bad name!" one WBS member exclaims) and the greatest
pariahs of the community, "the hoaxers" -- those who plant
phony footprints in the wilderness or claim sightings. Some hoaxers are
simply pranksters; others are current members looking to gain favor from
a community that, to a large degree, ranks its members on the amount of
information one possesses about Bigfoot.

Last July, a psychologist from southern Oregon, Dr. Matthew Johnson,
was hiking with his family along the coastal bluffs of Cave Junction
National Monument. Suddenly he heard a low chirping noise and caught a
whiff of something rank. He claims the peculiar sound startled him so
much, he was almost struck incontinent. Instead, he scurried to a nearby
bush and from there, with his trousers around his ankles, Johnson says
that he caught an unobstructed view of a 7-foot-tall Bigfoot, which, at
the time, was watching his family.

Johnson's story is the type that fuels the group's enthusiasm, the
seemingly sincere conversion of a nonbeliever. But these sightings also
carry a vexing dilemma. Where does this new person fit into the group
dynamic, where information and reputation are the measurements of social
rank? "All it takes is a sighting to put you at the top of the
pyramid," claims one tracker. "And that pisses a lot of people
off."

Johnson was catapulted to the summit of the Bigfoot community within
days. He conducted upward of 100 interviews with newspapers and TV
stations. No more than a week after the sighting, he posted a Web site
explaining the alleged event. He was, in this community, an overnight
sensation.

Two weeks after Johnson's sighting, someone posted an inquiry on one of
the more active Bigfoot chat rooms. The question was subversive:
"When did Dr. Johnson register his URL?" The insinuation was
that Johnson might have requested the domain name before his encounter
with Bigfoot.

A barrage of messages jumped to Johnson's defense, proclaiming that his
Web site was testimony to the new inductee's desire to help validate
Bigfoot sightings. "He wants to create a paradigm shift," said
one supporter. "He wants to get rid of the stigma and get
credibility."

Without proof and despite this outpouring of support, the damage was
done; Johnson's reputation in the Bigfoot community had been sabotaged.

At a mid-July lunch meeting of the WBS, speculation ran rampant.
Clearly, even if Johnson was bringing good news, the group was uneasy
about a newcomer.

"He started selling T-shirts," says one skeptical member. Big
money is rare in the Bigfoot community, whereas UFO sightings can yield
tens of thousands in honorariums at conferences or book deals. The lack
of monetary incentive seems to lend credibility to the Bigfoot
sightings. Theata Crowe, Ray's wife, joked that she had only made $7
from her book, "How to Cook a Bigfoot."

"As far as I'm concerned," says Theata, "that moves him
to the back of the bus."

"That was Cave Junction's doing," Crowe interrupts, referring
to the concession stand at the National Park that immediately began
selling T-shirts after Johnson's sighting.

All heads turn to him. "I've talked to him a few times now,"
Crowe tells the group. He pauses. "I think I believe him." His
statement stops the conversation.

There are two roads to belief, and ever since Galileo proclaimed that
the earth was not the center of the universe, these paths have taken
different routes. One road is less an actual pathway than a single leap
of faith; the true, unflinching believer starts with the premise that
God, reincarnation, Santa Claus or Bigfoot exists. From here, true
believers cast their belief backward, lining up bread crumbs to show how
they reached this point. Unexplained twists of fate, miracles, weird
noises in the dark, broken tree branches and the unexplained suddenly
add up to a graspable reality.

A handful of members begin to talk at another BFS meeting about
some of the people who have cycled through their organization -- and why
those people aren't around anymore. One member was upset about a tracker
who had borrowed his camper about a year ago for a backwoods Bigfoot
excursion. "He must've gotten drunk and walked on the roof,"
the member said. "The damn roof leaked after he dropped it back
off."

His wife quickly adds: "And, he left the thing without any
gas!"

The members at the lunch table then begin to discuss other former
members whose credibility fell short of the group's standards. "You
can tell the guys who will eventually see Bigfoot," says one
member. "They talk themselves into it," adds Theata, from the
far end of the table. Lloyd, the retired vet, leans toward me and says,
"More like smoke themselves into it." He smiles and winks at
me. Although popular conception may categorize Bigfoot enthusiasts as
easy-to-please believers, the serious Bigfoot enthusiast spends four to
six days a month on the ground, hiking through remote Pacific Northwest
forests, pawing river banks for footprints and combing tree branches for
shreds of evidence.

A man sitting next to me claims he spends four to five days a month in
the Pacific Northwest backcountry looking for Bigfoot. He has thick
forearms and says he's a bear hunter. He finishes his sandwich in a
blink of an eye. Four summers ago, he was camping with his son at Squaw
Mountain in southern Washington. In the late afternoon, just as the hard
edges of the sun were softening, they pitched their tent on a bald spot
of the mountain. His son had brought his bugle and was practicing on a
perch overhanging the wooded valley below. After a few minutes, they
heard a noise from the dense foliage returning their calls. The man
grabbed his video camera to capture the sound.

Returning home, he sent the tapes to several local colleges. The
University of Washington returned the tape, saying that the sounds were
inconclusive.

The urge to document Bigfoot has been a central force in the
community for the past three decades. In 1967, two amateur Bigfoot
enthusiasts, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin, ventured into the Bluff
Creek National Forest, a remote patch of land just south of the
Oregon-California border. Only 10 years earlier, the area had been
accessible only by a two-day hike. When a logging road was constructed
in 1958, the crews allegedly found scores of oversize footprints in the
soft sand. A press release referred to the
creature's "big feet," saddling the elusive beast with its
current popular name.

While riding on horseback through the area, Patterson and Gimlin claim
to have spotted a Bigfoot. They filmed it walking across a gray sandbar.
Lasting a mere 4 seconds, the film shows a languid creature calmly
swinging its arms as it moves back into the woods. Shot on an old 16 mm
camera, the footage is out of focus and muddy. The image is distant and
looks a lot like a person dressed in a gorilla suit.

The so-called Patterson film sparked a powder keg of boyhood fantasies
and would-be big-game explorers. Countless amateur scientists set off
into the Pacific Northwest woods over the next decade, hoping to snare
the first irrefutable evidence that Bigfoot exists. It is the ultimate
romantic search, the type that promises to change the way we think, to
provide a solid pathway -- not a leap of faith -- to the Truth. It was
an era that molded a new mentality and set the challenge for Bigfoot
enthusiasts.

Perhaps the person who most shaped this era -- one that lasted from the
surfacing of the Patterson film until three years ago -- is Peter Byrne.

Byrne is a contemporary Indiana Jones, polite, charismatic and
well-respected in and out of the Bigfoot community. Byrne had
established a top-notch trekking outfit in Nepal long before hiking the
Himalayas was a yuppie coming-of-age ritual. Then, in 1960, Byrne moved
to the Pacific Northwest. From then forward, he was a Bigfoot
enthusiast. In the late '70s, after publishing "The Search
for Bigfoot: Monster, Myth, or Man?" (Pocket Books), Byrne
established the Bigfoot Research Project. For several years, this outfit
was headquartered in The Dalles, Ore., and became a familiar sight for
travelers along I-84. On average, he maintained a half-million
dollar flow of contributions each year, from benefactors as diverse as
the Boston Institute of Science to former trekking clients. One major
contributor, Texas oil millionaire Tom Slick, also currently funds a
hunt for giant salamanders in the California desert. "If the
Pacific Northwest was the closet of America," says one current
tracker, "then Peter Byrne brought us out."

Byrne used his reputation as a big-game explorer and respected
trekker to lend a certain degree of validity to the Bigfoot community.
About half the Bigfoot seekers interviewed cite Byrne as an inspiration.
His research methods inspired others to follow suit, giving a certain
scientific rigor to the chase.

Then in 1997 Byrne retired from Bigfoot hunting and moved to the Los
Angeles area. He left behind a trail of Bigfoot researchers -- believers
who now had the advantage of online research and communication. At first
it looked good for the community, but in fact, the Internet explosion
coupled with a marked increase in the public's appetite for outdoor
activities may actually send Bigfoot enthusiasts scurrying back into the
shadows.

Late last summer, a Portland chapter of the Audubon Society sponsored a
five-day "Bigfoot" camp for 12- to 15-year-olds. The
century-old environmental organization, typically more associated with
bird-watching and quiet strolls through the woods, used Bigfoot as a
sales hook to interest adolescents. The teenagers camped near Mount St.
Helens, where there have been hundreds of sightings, and learned
tracking techniques, but ultimately the Audubon Society distanced itself
from any serious pursuit of Bigfoot. It's just a way to get kids into
the outdoors, said Steve Robertson, education director at Audubon.
"We don't want to give people the wrong idea that the Audubon
Society believes there's a Sasquatch," he explained.

Many members of the Bigfoot community believe that such half-serious
outings threaten to co-opt their personality. For a group of outsiders,
who take pride in being as elusive as the creature they are hunting,
such acceptance may ultimately corrupt their tightly knit community.
This and the rise of the Internet have diminished the need for
organizations like the Western Bigfoot Society and annual conferences
like Bigfoot Daze. By providing a virtual, year-round swap meet for
information and Bigfoot data, the Internet has swiped one of the primary
purposes of these Bigfoot organizations and events. A longtime
Bigfoot conference in British Columbia was canceled last
winter and attendance at last summer's Bigfoot Daze in Washington was
poor. Several speakers failed to show. Another "celebrity"
said it would be his last.

"These events are dying," he claimed, asking that his name be
withheld. "There is no need to get together." Standing over a
table of books, tracking records and Bigfoot postcards at a recent
Bigfoot conference, Crowe brushes aside such speculation.
"No," he says, "people want something that they can hold
onto."

"Well," quips one attendee, referring to the potential demise
of such events like the weekly Western Bigfoot Society lunches, "at
least we won't have to waste our Tuesday afternoons anymore."

"We'll just move on to Loch Ness," his wife adds.

...........

About the writer
Phil Busse is the managing editor for the Portland Mercury, in Oregon.

6.27.01Sasquatch/yeti: Scientific, other proof shows creature
is REALNo wild tales here. The latest scientific data, along with
personal testimony and other HARD evidence, gives every indication that the
"abominable snowman/sasquatch/bigfoot/yeti" creatures are as real as you
and I... which I guess is more or less pretty real. Right?

6-26-1LONDON (dpa) - British scientists on the trail of the Yeti
have found some of the best evidence yet for the existence of the mythical
Himalayan creature a sample of hair that has proved impossible to identify,
according to a publshed report Monday.Genetic tests on the hair,
which was gathered from a tree in Bhutan, have failed to match its DNA to
that of another animal, said the report in The Times.The findings,
which have surprised sceptical researchers, raise the strong possibility
that the sample belongs to an as yet undiscovered species.

In Bhutan, an expedition team was led by an official Yeti-hunter" to a forest
in the eastern part of the country, where he was convinced that an animal
was at large.He told us that he had found evidence of the Yeti in
the hollow of a cedar tree," Rob McCall, a zoologist who was part of the
expedition, was quoted as saying. Dr. McCall's team removed strands of hair
from the tree and returned to Britain to have them analysed.Bryan
Sykes, professor of Human Genetics at the Oxford Institute of Molecular Medicine,
one of the world's
leading experts on DNA analysis, who examined the hair, told The Times: "We
found some DNA in it, but we
don't know what it is. It's not a human, not a bear nor anything else we
have so far been able to identify. It's a
mystery and I never thoughtthis would end in a mystery. We have never
encountered DNA that we couldnt
recognise before."

James Aiken sent photographs of a Skunk Ape to Art Bell. The photographs
were taken near Sarasota, Florida by an elderly woman who did not want to
be interviewed. The creature was in her backyard late at night. She didn't
realize the creature was there until after the photos were taken. This is
not considered a Bigfoot, but an American Ape. It is estimated to be 7 to
8 feet tall. Apples were cut up and left out for the creature as bait, but
it would not eat the cut apples, but did eat a whole apple, which is a sign
of intelligence as the cut apples were been contaminated by human smell.
The website with further information is http://www.ifrs.com - (The link isn't
working but might later in the week)

The man who originally contacted the eldery woman is named David Barkasy.
(Experts said that the Skunkape is not considered to be a Bigfoot. The difference
between a Skunkape and a Bigfoot is rather obvious if one could see their
feet. A Bigfoot 'foot' is large but humanoid. A Skunkape foot is more like
a Chimpanzee and rather more like a hand which spreads out ... much different
than a 'foot'.

"On August 5, 2001 at 0313 CDT, on US Hwy 287, which is 31 miles west
of Palestine, Texas, I was traveling westbound at 65 mph when I saw what
looked like a bear cub or a very large dog sitting in the middle of the
road. I slowed down to 15 mph; I hit my high beams and stopped about 20
yards away from the animal. I put on my 4-way flashers, turned on my
interior spotlight.

As I looked up I saw a huge bipedal creature that I will call Bigfoot. It
walked from the soft shoulder of the road to the animal in the road. As he
(I am pretty sure it was a male) walked in front of my tractor he shielded
his eyes, not seemingly out of shyness, but more as an effort to protect
his eyes from the bright lights. I reduced my headlights to low beam, but
decided not to turn them off as I was in the middle of the highway. I was
doing my best to protect them by blocking the road with my
tractor-trailer. The big male went over to what I realized was a
'toddler.'

"He" grabbed its shoulder and attempted to grab the little
one's arm. The little one "scooted" away like a child trying to
get away from a parent that wants the child to go somewhere and the child
doesn't want to go.

The little one had greater agility than the big male. The little one
squirmed, scrambled, and scooted further up the road from where they were.
Then something caught my eye and ear directly next to my driver's window.
I casually looked over and within two feet of my face was a female. No
doubt female, she had "nursing breasts" (extended nipples). Her
eyes were almost even with my eye/level. I measured from where the top of
her head came up to my mirror; it was 7' 4" tall. The male was at
least one foot taller than her, plus some. She had a "gamy"
smell but didn't stink. Immediately upon seeing her, I smiled with all the
teeth I have.

From the interior spotlight, which was pointed down toward my lap, I am
sure she was able to see me clearly. I certainly saw her clearly, so
clearly I could smell and feel her breath. I particularly noticed the
volume of air that she breathed. Not out of breath, or even heavy
breathing, just a large volume of air with each breath. I again smiled at
her and asked, "Is the baby okay?" She slowly "smiled"
back at me. I noticed a dental anomaly...either she had a double row of
teeth or the crowns of her teeth were split on the top center to give the
impression of two rows of teeth.

She then reached into the tractor and stroked my beard (like I do when
I'm thinking). My beard is mid-chest length and multi-colored. It was then
I realized the large male's head was identical to mine, although his beard
was shorter. The female had thin facial hair on her chin. The rest of his
hair/fur was dark brown with traces of gray/white on his shoulders, back
and chest. She was a mixture of brown and reddish-brown hair/fur, mostly
reddish-brown. As she took her hand off my beard, and took her hand out of
my tractor, I extended my hand out to her. She sandwiched my hand between
her two hands, her hands were 2x-3x larger than mine. Her hands felt like
roughneck work gloves (rough leather). At this point she gave me a
"soulful" look. From her facial expressions and her watery eyes,
I took it that she was saying, "thanks for not running over my
baby". The eyes were not dead eyes, they were bright and moist, just
very dark brown, not black.

The large male had the "child" under his left arm like a sack of
potatoes. He never looked directly at me as I watched him walk back into
the treeline. I noticed at least 3 more (I suspected even more) at the
treeline. They ranged from the height of the female to slightly shorter,
but none came close to the size of the male.

**Please do not use my name. I have no objections to your use of this
report, but please do not use my name. As I told you on the phone, I am
not a fan of the paranormal(UFO's, Aliens, Time- travel, etc.). I
had no belief in what I saw, until I saw it. I had no fear of these
creatures (as I explained on the phone).
**

I believe any use of deadly force would have been borderline homicide
(no doubt in my mind). Twenty-one years of investigating experience
teaches you to observe, remember as much as you can, and immediately write
it down. That's what I have done. The encounter ended at 0317.

I have thought of ten million things that I coulda/woulda/shoulda done, if
given the opportunity again. I know, however, this was a once in a
lifetime event."

Use this report, I don't care how, just please don't use my name. I'm
not seeking publicity or monetary gain from this experience.

Credit report sent in by investigator <mailto:timolson62@msn.com>Tim
Olson
Witness details not available per request of witness !

VANCOUVER - René Dahinden, the world's leading authority on
Sasquatch, has died after spending nearly 50 years searching for the
legendary beast.

He never saw one, but right to the end he believed an ape-like hominoid
was haunting the forests of British Columbia -- even though a few doubts
had started to creep into his mind.

Mr. Dahinden, who was 71, collected hundreds of footprint casts and
traipsed all over the Pacific Northwest investigating sightings and
interviewing everyone who had a breathless story to tell about a hairy
encounter with Bigfoot. He spent "years and years" in the bush
by himself, trying to find one piece of solid evidence that would
convince the scientific community to take the legend of Sasquatch
seriously.

"His quest, his mission, was to have the government put some money
into research and to convince the scientific community to do something
about finding it and protecting it," Christopher Murphy, a friend
of Mr. Dahinden's, said yesterday.

"It never came about, because nobody ever found any proof, other
than footprints. He thought most of the footprints were fake, the vast
majority, but he believed in some of them. He put faith in the
footprints because he said, 'They couldn't be left by the
imagination.'"

His pursuit of Sasquatch made him so famous that a few years ago the
brewers of Kokanee beer asked him to play himself in a television
commercial.

Even then he didn't get to see the Sasquatch. Facing the camera, with
the modest trailer he lived in as a backdrop, an off-camera voice asks
if he ever used B.C.-made Kokanee beer to lure a Sasquatch.

"Do you think I'm crazy or something?" asks Mr. Dahinden,
unaware that behind him a Sasquatch is sneaking into his trailer to make
off with a case of beer.

If it had happened as depicted, you can be sure Mr. Dahinden would have
poured a puddle of plaster goop on the ground to make a cast of the
footprint.

Wherever he travelled, Mr. Dahinden had a collection of footprints with
him. They were his touchstone to reality in a world where people armed
with little more than absolute faith try to prove the existence of a
mythical creature.

Dmitri Bayanov, in his book, America's Bigfoot: Fact, Not Fiction,
writes that in a 1971 visit to Moscow, Mr. Dahinden was challenged at a
public meeting to produce evidence. "Dahinden held up a weighty
plaster cast of a huge footprint and quipped: 'If anyone finds this kind
of evidence immaterial, let me strike his head with it'."

The Russian author and Sasquatch hunter wrote that Mr. Dahinden had a
considerable impact in Moscow, where he presented a film that
purportedly shows a Sasquatch running into the woods near Bluff Creek,
Wash.

The film, shot by Sasquatch hunters Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in
1967, was called a fake by many. But Mr. Dahinden, who bought the rights
to some of the footage shortly after it was shot, believed in it.

In Moscow, he showed the film in the boardroom of Izvestia, the national
newspaper, to the Union of Writers of the USSR and to the Central
Scientific Research Institute of Prosthetics and Artificial Limb
Construction.

"As the meeting at the Institute began, over one hundred scientists
and technicians, wearing white coats, assembled to watch the film. In
Dahinden's words, 'the whole joint came to a standstill,'" wrote
Mr. Bayanov.

Mr. Murphy, who is writing a book about the film titled
Circumstantial Evidence, said Mr. Dahinden was skeptical of many
Sasquatch sightings, but he defended the film, even after it was widely
dismissed as a hoax.

"For a long time I was never really able to nail him down on his
view of the film. But towards the end he said: 'It's definitely
real,'" said Mr. Murphy.

Mr. Dahinden sold rights to the film several times to television
producers, and used stills to produce Sasquatch posters, but he never
made much money.

To support his Sasquatch expeditions, Mr. Dahinden worked on the grounds
of the Vancouver Gun Club, where he collected lead shot from spent
shotgun shells.

"He worked really hard," said Mr. Murphy. "He'd go out
and salvage the lead. He'd clean it off. He'd end up with hundreds of
pounds of lead. He worked with his bare hands ... I don't think it could
have been too healthy. He'd put it in bags and sell it back to the
people who manufacture shotgun shells."

Mr. Dahinden was born in Switzerland, but immigrated to Canada in 1953.
Just a month after he arrived, he heard a radio report about a Daily
Mail expedition to the Himalayas to search for the legendary Yeti, a
hairy beast that supposedly wanders the mountain wilderness, high above
the tree line.

Don Hunter, who in 1973 co-wrote the book Sasquatch, said that on
hearing the report, Mr. Dahinden turned to the Alberta farmer he was
working for, and said: "'Now wouldn't that be something; to be on
the hunt for that thing?' And he said, 'Hell, you don't have to go that
far; they got them things in British Columbia.'"

And so the mission began. He promptly moved to B.C. and began his life's
quest.

Mr. Hunter said Mr. Dahinden "investigated with an exhaustive
thoroughness countless stories of Sasquatch sightings, thousands of
footprints -- and not a few Sasquatch hunters themselves. He has
badgered every branch of science in North America that could possibly
relate to the existence of a hairy bipedal giant hominoid, with little
success. For the most part he has met with responses that ranged from
vague expressions of 'cautious interest' to the attitude of: 'It can't
exist, therefore it doesn't exist.' ... He has never seen a Sasquatch;
he is not easily persuaded by those who say they have seen one ... He
says: 'Something is making those goddamn footprints and I'm going to
find out what it is.'"

He never did find out -- but his unwavering belief inspired others to
take up the cause.

"He got calls from absolutely everywhere," said Mr. Murphy.
"And he went everywhere. He spent years and years in the
bush," he said. "He never, ever found anything when he was out
on his own. But when he responded to others, to reports, he'd scout the
area, and he'd find footprints. He'd take statements from people, he'd
interview everyone.

"His passion overwhelmed him. But one day he said to me: 'You know,
I've spent over 40 years -- and I didn't find it. I guess that's got to
say something.'"

That's as close as he ever came to admitting defeat.

Mr. Dahinden died last week of natural causes. His memorial will be held
at the Vancouver Gun Club, in Richmond, tomorrow.

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DAHINDEN LEFT HIS OWN IMPRINT
Ad people marvelled at his off-the-wall yet down-to-earth aura
By Patrick Allossery
Financial Post

Before hiring a celebrity spokesperson, advertisers will often search
far and wide to find the candidate who exhibits just the right mix of
star wattage and natural brand fit.

Sometimes, however, the stars align on their own, and the ideal person
simply appears out of nowhere. In the case of René Dahinden, the
spokesman for an enormously successful Kokanee beer campaign in
the late 1990s, that is precisely what happened.

To say the least, Mr. Dahinden, who died April 18 at age 70 after a
brief illness, was a colourful character. Shortly after immigrating to
Canada from Switzerland in 1956, he became enthralled by the mystery of
the Sasquatch, and he set off in dogged pursuit of the mythical beast.
It was to be a quest that lasted 45 years and, by all accounts, came to
define his existence.

In 1997, Scot Keith, then an account director with Vancouver agency
Bryant Fulton & Shee, which at the time handled the Kokanee beer
account, was looking for an angle to revive a campaign already based on
the myth of the Sasquatch. By chance, he read an article about Mr.
Dahinden in a newspaper, which led in turn to a number of phone
conversations between the two. The rest, as they say, is history.
"Our talks formed the basis of an ad featuring René that tested
through the roof," said Mr. Keith, who now works as an account
director at the Vancouver office of MacLaren McCann.

The 60-second spot shows Mr. Dahinden (who is dressed in his own
clothing because wardrobe could not make him look more authentic)
responding to questions from an off-camera interviewer.

Toward the end, the questioner asks him if he has heard the talk that
the Sasquatch prefers Kokanee-brand beer. Mr. Dahinden dismisses this as
a myth, but as he is speaking, the viewer catches a glimpse of a large
furry animal exiting his trailer with what look suspiciously like a case
of beer.

"One of the great things about René is that he was serious about
what he did, but he could laugh at himself," Mr. Keith said.
"He knew what people thought of him, but he didn't care."

It was precisely this combination of the down-to-earth and the
off-the-wall that made Mr. Dahinden the perfect spokesperson for Kokanee,
said Rick Kemp, the creative director of the spot. "Essentially,
our idea was to send up his life's work, and he was okay with it."

Mr. Dahinden's attitude and the situation fit Kokanee's brand like a
glove, said Mr. Kemp, who is creative director with J. Walter Thompson
in Toronto. "I don't think you could have invented him. What made
it work was that he was a real person. That, to me, was the magic of the
campaign."

Legend of Bigfoot put to test By Theo Stein Denver Post Environment
Writer Jan. 14, 2001 - All things considered, 2000 was a rather big year
for Bigfoot researchers. In April, two fly-fishermen reported huge, humanlike
footprints 7 miles apart along the banks of Colorado's Eagle River.

Bill Heicher, a wildlife biologist at the Colorado Division of Wildlife,
evaluated the evidence and drew two conclusions: The tracks weren't faked,
and they weren't made by a bear. Says Heicher: "It's no animal that we know
of." In August, two hikers forced by a storm to camp in high wilderness north
of Crested Butte emerged with quite a tale. They said they had been shadowed
for two nights by at least one Bigfoot that peered into their camp and approached
their tent.

On Sept. 22, a team of researchers found a huge body imprint in a mud wallow
in the Cascade Range of western Washington state. Several researchers, including
a physical anthropologist at Idaho State University who examined a plaster
cast of the Cascades imprint, said the impression - of a hairy forearm, thigh,
buttock and heel - was not made by any creature known to science. Of course,
claims of encounters with an elusive, hairy giant have been the stuff of
legend for more than a century. Could such a creature exist? An eclectic
assortment of scientists and academics is testing the proposition that Bigfoot
isn't a myth but an ice age survivor that has managed to persist just outside
the vision of Western science. Drawing on each other's disciplines, these
researchers are sharing information and applying sophisticated forensic
techniques as never before.

Many experts want conclusive evidence Still, their work is greeted with
skepticism - if not outright hostility. For most biologists and anthropologists,
no evidence short of a carcass or bones will suffice. "Most people in my
field would need the beyond - the - shadow -of-adoubt kind" of proof, said Walter
Hartwig, an anthropology professor who is editing a book on primate fossils
for Cambridge University Press and who studies extinct South American monkeys.
"They want to see the body. I'm confident enough that it's not going to happen.
We're not naming new mammals in North America, and that's because we've
exterminated most of them." Michael Shermer, publisher of the magazine Skeptic,
is even harsher. "If you believe in Bigfoot, you most likely
believe in the Loch Ness monster, the lost continent of Atlantis, whatever."
Despite such views, a few investigators are expanding their efforts in the
wake of new discoveries, using scent, sound and food baits, thermal imagers
and remote camera stations to gather more convincing evidence. Last year,
they received support from an unexpected source: a Texas police fingerprint
expert who has worked on more than 300 cases for the FBI and the Drug Enforcement
Agency. He says he has no doubt that at least some alleged Bigfoot footprints
were left by a large primate unknown to science. "Being a crime-scene examiner,
I have to be very
careful about getting the facts right," said Jimmy Chilcutt, a Conroe, Texas,
police forensics investigator. "But I knew after examining the prints that
there's a real animal out there. The skin pattern is unique and consistent
with itself. There's no doubt in my mind." One of the few academic Bigfoot
researchers is physical anthropologist Jeff Meldrum, an Idaho State University
professor who has examined hundreds of claimed footprints from Bigfoot, also
called Sasquatch in the Northwest.

Many he has rejected as hoaxes, others as misidentifications. But more than
100, he said, represent the trace of an unknown animal with a big, flat foot
and five toes. Meldrum's lab in Pocatello is crammed with typical academic
paraphernalia. Posters of evolutionary trees festoon the walls, rubber models
of ape feet and hands sit in a cabinet. Bulging bookshelves, charts and cabinets
sit full of papers relating to his main area of study - how our stiff, stub-toed
running foot evolved from the flexible, grasping ape foot of our distant
ancestors. Long study convinces researcher of possibilities Rather than simply
an enlarged human foot, Meldrum said, the
Sasquatch foot displays a unique combination of recognizably different anatomic
features to solve the problem of
two-footed locomotion. The result is a proportionally wider, flatter appendage
with long, flexible toes and a spring-loaded, ape-like hinge in place of
our stiff arch. "This animal's little toe is about the same length as my
little finger," he said, holding his hand up against the side of one of his
casts. "This toe probably has the same grasping ability as my finger, too."
So far, Meldrum's theories have failed to gain even a toehold of acceptance
with the anthropological establishment, which regards talk of Bigfoot as
heresy. A reporter's question about Bigfoot so upset one prominent academic
that he sputtered into a rage and quickly ended the conversation. Others
politely decline interview requests. But a few of Meldrum's peers admire
his work and his pluck. Forensic anthropologist George W. Gill, a professor
at the University of Wyoming, studied the Bigfoot phenomenon in the 1970s.
A former director of the American Board of Forensic Anthropologists, Gill
said the argument is simple: Either the most sophisticated hoax in the history
of anthropology has gone undiscovered for centuries, or the big ape exists.
Another is Hartwig, who vouches for Meldrum's "rigorous" methods even as
he questions his conclusions. "Jeff has executed the model approach," said
Hartwig, who is editing a book on human evolution to which Meldrum is
contributing a chapter. "He's weeded out what he believes might be hoaxes
or misidentifications. And for the ones he can't exclude, he's devised a
theory for what those footprints represent. In a sense, it's beautiful and
well-controlled, inductive science. You may think it's far out, but
methodologically speaking, he has toed the line very strictly. And he's bold
enough not to allow any outside pressure to direct his science." What Meldrum
and other researchers, professional and amateur, suggest is bold by any standard.
They believe a few thousand of these powerful and intelligent creatures live widely dispersed
in mountainous forest from the Pacif ic Coast to the Colorado Rockies and
beyond. They believe the big apes are opportunistic omnivores, eating
roots and berries when available, preying on deer and elk whenever possible.
And they think Bigfoot are curious apes, often sneaking into the camps of
people who have intruded in their territory, even stealing camp food when
they can.

So where's the body? Bigfoot advocates say the main reason no one's found
a body is that a dead animal decomposes quickly and completely. The carcass
of a rare animal with no known predators would be almost impossible to find.
By way of example, Colorado Division of Wildlife bear biologist Tom Beck
says he's never found the remains of a bear that died a natural death. Most
anthropologists argue no Bigfoot corpse has ever been found because the animal
doesn't exist. Convincing his peers to look at his collection of more than
100 footprints, knuckle prints and other trace evidence has been "without
question the biggest obstacle," Meldrum said. "If someone takes the time
to visit the lab, they are almost uniformly overwhelmed by the amount of
data. Usually, they have no concept of the amount of evidence that's been
collected." Gill, the Wyoming professor, chides his colleagues for not taking
a close look at research like Meldrum's. "Even if there's only a remote chance
this animal is alive today, to think that anthropology is basically blowing
off this stuff is disheartening." Ron Westrum, a sociologist at Eastern Michigan
State University, has studied how scientists have historically grappled with
anomalies, or observations that are "contrary to law." "Scientists who make
these observations learn to shut up because other scientists will punish
them," said Westrum. "These are really taboo topics in science, which is
a reputational business. Your reputation is your career." For those reasons,
Westrum thinks Meldrum's footprint research, the alleged Sasquatch body imprint
and any other evidence will continue to be ignored. "Scientists don't see
this as a problem," he said. "As far as they're concerned, the evidence has
never been recorded." Said Meldrum: "But the bottom line is, these casts
are taking up drawer space. These are points of datum. You can't simply sweep
them under the rug. Well, you can, but you end up with a pretty lumpy rug."

In addition to Meldrum's footprint research, Henner Fahrenbach, a primate
researcher at a private lab in Oregon, has identified a dozen hair samples,
collected from four Western states, that he believes came from an unknown
primate. Fahrenbach identified a fragment of similar hair that was plucked
from the so-called Skookum Cast, a cast of the body imprint found in September.
Others have recorded incredibly loud, bellowing vocalizations from an undescribed
animal, calls which when broadcast at night near reported Bigfoot sightings
have produced identical replies. And then there are sighting reports - literally
thousands of them - made by foresters, biologists and geologists, as well
as campers, hikers and motorists. All tell of a remarkably large, hairy ape
that covers rough ground with a strange, fluid motion not unlike a cross-country
skier. What's significant, said Meldrum, is that the evidence attributed
to Sasquatch is consistent with what people report. "The long and short of
it is, there's a beautiful orchestration between what I'm seeing in my footprint
analysis and all of the anecdotal reports of its gait: the forward lean,
deeply bent knees," he said. "It's all a strategy for supporting a heavier,
bulkier biped. And it's a very elegant adaptation, I think, in the context
of its very broken and rugged habitat." Film most famous anecdotal evidence
In 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, two Bigfoot enthusiasts, filmed
what Meldrum and others believe is a female Sasquatch, complete with hairy
breasts, striding away across a loamy streambed on Bluff Creek in Northern
California. While some have since claimed that the film is a hoax, longtime
Hollywood special-effects creator Bill Munns said it would have been impossible
in 1967 to fake a creature suit like the one depicted in the film. "With
today's technology, yes, you could fake a fur suit like that," said Munns,
who did just that when he built a life-size model of the giant fossil ape
Gigantopithecus blacki - a possible evolutionary link to Sasquatch - for
University of Iowa anthropologist
Russell Ciochon. "But in the 1960s, short, dense stretch fur was nonexistent."
Meldrum thinks that, at a minimum, fossils of Gigantopithecus show that evolution
could have produced a Sasquatch-size ape that lived in temperate forests.

"It's tempting to draw the line between the two, but so little is known about
either," Meldrum said. If Giganto still exists, then it has been a successful
line. Fossils of the creature were discovered in cave sediments dated
to a million years. The last fossils date to 300,000 to 400,000 years ago,
a time when Homo erectus still populated Asia. Ciochon, who has studied
Gigantopithecus sites, rejects the link between Gigantopithecus and Sasquatch.
He believes Gigantopithecus was a slow, sedentary knuckle-walker like the
gorilla, not a wide-ranging omnivore like the bear. Ciochon believes Giganto
went extinct because of climate change, bamboo die-offs, and perhaps human
hunting. Ciochon declined to be interviewed for this story. For Meldrum,
the PattersonGimlin film is doubly significant because several frames provide
the only existing images of his study object, the creature's foot. A plaster
cast of tracks left by the creature shows an apelike, midfoot hinge that
he
says is a defining characteristic of the Sasquatch foot. Lyle Laverty, until
recently the top Forest Service official in the Rocky Mountain region, started
his career as a timber manager in northern California during the late 1950s
and 1960s. He investigated the Patterson-Gimlin sighting the day after the
film was shot and photographed several footprints left by the animal. Laverty
says the film site was so close to a logging road that he still worries the
film might somehow have been faked. Laverty But Laverty refused to rule out
the possibility that Bigfoot exists. Starting in 1958, his logging crews
reported finding hundreds of gigantic footprints around their new logging
sites. Whatever left the prints was powerful enough to tumble logging equipment
and toss 450-pound drums of gasoline, he says. "You never want to count it
out," said Laverty, who was recently tapped to head the Forest Service's
national fire plan, with its $1.2 billion annual budget. "Some of these crews
really felt something was up there. And anything that can pick up a 55-gallon
drum of fuel is a big dude." Meldrum's skepticism vanished in 1996 when he
investigated a freshly laid line of alleged Bigfoot tracks in Washington's
Blue Mountains. After analyzing the tracks, he determined the animal that
left them had proceeded out of a remote drainage along a soupy farm road,
then turned and sprinted for the woods, as if it were fleeing something or
someone, Meldrum said. "In order for someone to have faked that, they would
have had to walk out of that drainage carrying three or four different sets
of feet, which they changed intermittently in mid-stride without any obvious
breaks," he said. "It just becomes ludicrous to suggest that." Last year,
Meldrum received unexpected support from Chilcutt, the fingerprint and forensics
expert who's also one of the world's few authorities on primate skin patterns,
or dermatoglyphics. When Chilcutt saw Meldrum on television talking about
apparent skin impressions on some plaster casts of alleged Sasquatch footprints,
he offered to examine them, expecting to find Meldrum's claims were inaccurate.
Chilcutt developed an expertise in primate skin patterns as an offshoot of
his ongoing study of the human fingerprint. His archive of more than 1,000
ape-skin impressions - prints he collected from tranquilized orangutans,
chimpanzees and gorillas - is the largest such collection in the world.

When Chilcutt visited Meldrum's lab, it seemed his hunch would turn out to
be accurate. He quickly determined that the ridges he found in the first
track Meldrum gave him were from a human finger. But when he examined the
rest of Meldrum's collection, Chilcutt found two casts with coarse ridge
patterns similar to each other but different from humans or known great apes.
One cast of a footprint discovered in Washington's Blue
Mountains in 1985 astonished him with the distinctive puckered scars of several
healed wounds. "When primate skin heals, the ridges curl inward toward the
wound," he said. "Someone would have to know a real lot
about biology and dermatoglyphics to know that. Anybody that smart wouldn't
be messing with fakes." While Chilcutt allows that any single track could
be a hoax, he said the skin impressions he has identified in the Blue
Mountains track were consistent with those found in a Bluff Creek track from
1967. "We're talking about 18 years and 700 or 800 miles apart," he said.
After he spoke about his finding on National Public Radio, a sheriff's deputy
sent in a cast of a track he'd found in Georgia in 1977. Same pattern. In
mid-November, Chilcutt examined skin impressions from alleged heel impressions
from the body imprint discovered in Washington. He said they match the other
four examples he's identified.

Unlike other Bigfoot researchers who are often the object of professional
scorn, no one has stepped forward to contradict Chilcutt. "I'm so well
entrenched, my reputation as a latent fingerprint examiner is secure," he
said. "So I don't have that problem. Knowing my background and expertise,
they accept my findings." Chilcutt said he's encouraged Meldrum to continue
his research. "I tell Jeff, "There's no question this animal is out there,
so don't give up,'- " Chilcutt said. "I want him to not give up on this.
He's on to something." Copyright 2001 The Denver Post. All rights reserved.

The imprint of a hairy backside in the mud of Washington state is the
strongest hint yet that Bigfoot is roaming the North American far west,
according to researchers who made the discovery.

Many people doubt whether the giant primate, commonly known as Bigfoot,
actually exists. Hundreds of its supposed footprints have been
photographed and cast, but this is one of the few body impressions of
the hypothetical creature.

"If we can just get other scientists to look at this with an
objective view, I think they'll say there must be something out
there," says LeRoy Fish, a zoologist and retired wildlife ecologist
who took part in the expedition that discovered the imprint.

Most stories of the bipedal apelike creature are dismissed as
misidentifications or hoaxes. But Fish and others think Bigfoot, or
Sasquatch as it is known in Canada, may be living hidden away in remote
wilderness areas.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), which includes some
trained scientists, sponsored a 13-person expedition in September to
look for evidence in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southern
Washington state. To attract one of the creatures, the team set out
food, spread pheromones and played recordings thought to be the calls of
other Bigfoots.

After placing apples in a muddy spot one evening, the investigators
returned the next morning to find an impression which, they say, shows
the left forearm, hip, thigh and heel of a large primate. They believe
the impression was made as the creature sat down and reached over to
pick up the bait.

Anthropologist Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University says the imprint
seems to have been made by a large, hair-covered hominid more than 2.5
metres tall. Meldrum says he found markings that look like human
fingerprints on the heel print. "All we're trying to say at this
stage is that there's evidence that justifies objective
consideration," Meldrum says.

The BFRO is inviting outside scientists to examine the casts, but has so
far had no offers. "It's been a challenge," says Meldrum.
"For most people, you just mention Bigfoot and you get a
snicker." Benjamin Radford of the Skeptical Inquirer magazine
agrees that mainstream scientists are wary of the subject because of a
history of fakes. "After a while they just get tired of wasting
their time on hoaxes."

First-of-a kind Bigfoot discovery has skeptics taking notice October 2, 2000,
08:30 AM MASON COUNTY  One of the Northwests biggest mysteries,
the Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot, is no longer a
legend  its alive, according to researchers who have discovered
what they say is its imprint.

Deep in the northwest mountains, a team of 14 researchers tracked the elusive
primate-type beast for a week deep in the mountains of the Gifford Pinchot
national forest. The imprint
appears to be a hair-covered body lying down on its side, reaching over to
get some fruit, the researchers said.

Thermal imaging confirmed that the body print was only hours old. From the
imprint, they created a 250 lb. plaster cast of what they say is the lower
half of the Sasquatch. "We actually almost missed it, said researcher
Derek Randels. It dawned on us all at the same time, and it was
overwhelming." "These heel impressions weren't made by a person getting in
the mud wallow and squirming around," said Dr. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State
University.

The trackers gathered hair samples that will be analyzed by DNA testing.
They also made voice recordings of what they think is the Sasquatch wailing,
also being sent off for analysis. The creature is believed to be 7 to 8 feet
tall, weighing 800 to 1,000 lbs. The researchers believe there are hundreds
just like it throughout forests in the Northwest. There are a lot of sightings,
they added, but estimate that more than 90 percent of sightings go unreported
for fear of ridicule. This cast is very hard to argue with, said
Randels. We have had a lot of very intelligent people looking at it
in the last two days and I think its just going to be a heck of a shot
in the arm for the credibility of the creatures existence.

Sasquatches? Sea serpents? They're here in Kansas By Beccy Tanner The Wichita
Eagle In 1869, Crawford County residents spotted a gorillalike wild man.
And in 1886, a newspaper reported that a hair-covered "wild family" had been
captured by a search party in Washington County.

Bigfoot in Kansas? Well, maybe. Through research, a Kansas author has discovered
that in nearly every decade in every Kansas county, there is a story of weird,
bigfoot-type creatures, or Sasquatches, as they are sometimes called. Consider
these Kansas reports: In 1978, the chief of police for Chetopa, in Labette
County, reported finding 2 1/2 miles of animallike tracks with footprints
measuring 17 inches long and 55/8 inches wide. And in 1984, a Sedgwick County
woman and her daughter reported being followed by a large animal as they
walked
along a dark, country lane.

Topeka resident Lisa Hefner Heitz, author of the 1997 book "Haunted Kansas,"
is working on a book of strange and unusual sightings in Kansas. "It seemed
like a natural progression from ghosts," Heitz said. "As I was collecting
all those stories, people also started telling me stories of other creatures,
UFOs and even sightings of a sea serpent in a sinkhole by Inman." "Just as
I am a ghost agnostic," Heitz said, "I am a bigfoot agnostic. I can't tell
you why these stories exist. I don't know what these people are seeing. But
there is a sort of eternal fascination about the mysterious creatures that
reside in dark areas. Things that normally exist in our imagination, when
they show up in reality, are not only frightening but fascinating.

These types of hairy humanoids are reported all over the world." Could it
be that Sasquatch is in Kansas? Go back to an Aug. 15, 1869, article in the
St. Louis Democrat. The newspaper reported that nearly every resident of
Crawford County had seen a beast nicknamed "Old Sheff." "Several times it
has approached the cabins of the settlers, much to the terror of the women
and children.... It has a stooping gait, very long arms with immense hands
or claws; generally walks on its hind legs but sometimes on all fours."

In October 1978, The Wichita Eagle reported that an 8-foot-tall, bigfootlike
creature was seen twice in three weeks roaming by the Kansas Turnpike near
Lawrence. Heitz said her collection of Kansas stories won't be limited to
bigfoot tales. For instance, in the 1950s residents near Inman developed
a fascination for "Sinkhole Sam," a rather large snakelike creature that
inhabited a local sinkhole. "Folks speculated that Sam could have been living
in an underground cavern and, when the sinkhole filled with water, crawled
up and made his home in the big sink," Heitz said. "They said he looked like
a big snake or eel and was reported to be 15 feet long and 21 inches in
circumference." Heitz has already collected more than 350 stories for the
book, and she is looking for more Kansas legends and strange creature stories
to research. "This is part of our folkloric traditions," she said. "And besides,
these stories fascinate people.You don't have to be a believer to be fascinated."

Hot pursuit - Bigfoot lives -- online. By Samantha Martin-Evans From the
December 18, 2000 issue Who knows what our vast forests are bearing silent
witness to at this very moment?

Bigfoot could be out there swinging from the treetops, and we would never
know it. Until now. If Thom Powell and the other curators of the
Bigfoot
Field Researchers Organization have their way, Bigfoot's days
of stealth are numbered. Mr. Powell is head of the BFRO's Wireless Wilderness
Project, which seeks to install wireless Webcams and microphones in areas
where Bigfoot sightings have been reported. The BFRO's team of researchers
is trying to attract sponsors to finance an arsenal of strategically placed
Webcams that would allow the public to tune in to remote locations, 24 hours
a day, by PC. Mr. Powell and his associates are not asking people to believe.
"We're just asking [them] to contribute to the pursuit of better evidence,"
he says. Mr. Powell says images captured by motion-triggered digital video
cameras would lend the project the credibility it sorely needs. "The impact
that such evidence would have on cryptozoölogy would help sway certain
scientific parties," says Mr. Powell. "[Bigfoot researchers] are tired of
being the point men on the 'does it exist?' debate." They just long to solve
what the BFRO says is one of the most important scientific questions of our
time. Maybe the Webcams will help these mocked researchers get some respect.

8-2-00 HANOVER -- Move over, Pacific Northwest. Maryland now has its own
version of the legendary Bigfoot. Construction workers fled the Arundel Mills
mall construction site early Tuesday morning after they reportedly spotted
a 12-foot-tall creature that left abnormally large footprints. The sighting
has peaked the interest of state officials, residents and even the television
show ``Unsolved Mysteries.'' Three workers say they were sleeping in their
van when they were awakened by a towering animal running on two legs, Anne
Arundel Police Sgt. Joseph E. Jordan said. They retreated to a nearby restaurant
and called police, who sent an off-duty officer to investigate. Officer Nicholas
DiPietro persuaded the workers to return to the site, where they discovered
a 15- to 20-inch-long footprint, Jordan said. But when they caught another
glimpse of the creature, the workers again ran away. DiPietro said he later
spotted a large animal on a hill. The officer said he blew an air horn, but
the creature sat motionless and silent, glaring at the officer for nearly
a minute. It then ambled down the hill and disappeared. Department of Natural
Resources searches have turned up no sign of the creature. DNR spokeswoman
Susan O'Brien said it may have been a bear, which would have been about 5
feet tall and 300 pounds. She said poor lighting and the workers' fear may
have made the animal seem larger to them. The unusually large footprint could
have been made by an animal that slipped in the mud, O'Brien said. County
ExecutiveJanet S. Owens expressed concern that the sighting may slow the
mall's construction. It is scheduled to open

November 16. 2000 Copyright 2000 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

8-2-00 The sighting of a 12-foot-tall, black, mystery creature seen lurking
in the dark of night near the Arundel Mills construction site sparked a media
frenzy yesterday in the light of day. The report of the "strange sighting"
was checked by police early Monday morning and quickly became a joke about
the sighting of an imaginary Loch Ness Monster from the Severn River. State
wildlife officials were called in to search the area yesterday, where the
large, unidentified beast that walked upright had scared several construction
workers. The workers said they were awakened just past midnight Monday while
napping in a van at the mall site in Hanover. Yesterday, reporters from
television shows questioned police and Department of Natural Resources officials
as they gathered in the area. County workers laughed about the tourism
possibilities for the county's sasquatch. But County Executive Janet S. Owens'
spokesman remained serious, expressing Owens' concern that Arundel Mills
mall open Nov. 16. 2000

The frightened workers said the "thing" ran past them so fast they weren't
sure what it was. After fleeing to a nearby fast-food restaurant, they called
police, who dispatched an off-duty officer working security at the site.
He had trouble persuading the men to return to where they say they first
spotted the animal. Later, when the officer and the workers caught another
glimpse of the creature, the workers ran away again. Hours later, the officer
spotted a large animal in the dark with his floodlight , but it was
unclear whether it was the same
beast spotted earlier by the workers. DNR sent a regional wildlife biologist
to the construction site, but the search for the animal or its prints came
up empty, said Susan O'Brien, a department spokeswoman. "It was most likely
the bear spotted on [Route] 295 not two or three miles from that site," O'Brien
said.

The female bear, which had been with a small cub killed by a car on the road,
would have weighed at most about 300 pounds and would be about 5 feet tall
if it stood upright, she said. She said the animal might have looked much
larger - distorted by the witnesses' fear and horror and by poor lighting.
That is, if the bear was the same animal that terrified the construction
workers. The officer reported finding a 15- to 20-inch-long print and seeing
a large animal near a pond on the construction site about 3 a.m. Although
the print would have been too large to be from a bear - even a large one
- O'Brien said it was possible that the animal had slid in the dirt, creating
an elongated print. Bears have been sighted by residents in the Baltimore
area recently, she said. If confronted by a bear, residents should make their
presence known by standing straight, talking and then backing away slowly
in a nonconfrontational manner, said O'Brien. UFO Research

Some people believe in Bigfoot. Most don't. Some aren't sure what might be
tramping around California's backcountry. Margaret Wooden is skeptical, but
she knows one thing: Bigfoot could be good for business. ``He's quite a drawing
card,'' says Wooden, who helped organize the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum's
new
``Bigfoot Wing.''

The idea: put some local history on display and see if this struggling ex-lumber
town can jump-start its economy with a big hand from Bigfoot. ``It was a
natural,'' says Jo Ann Hereford, another in the squadron of volunteers who
keep the museum going. Bigfoot goes back a long way in Willow Creek, an old
Gold Rush town about 300 miles north of San Francisco.

Tracks were reported in 1958 at Bluff Creek, a remote spot about 50 miles
north. Newspapers quickly took up the story. ``Huge Foot Prints Hold Mystery
of Friendly Bluff Creek Giant,'' reads one headline preserved in the Willow
Creek exhibit. Seventy-six-year-old Al Hodgson remembers it well. He was
running a general store in Willow Creek when a reporter for a local paper
talked him into giving her a ride up to remote Bluff Creek. Soon, he was
making regular trips into the woods, Plaster of Paris at the ready. Hodgson
never found Bigfoot, although he did make casts of some prints. But he was
there the night in 1967 that Bigfoot hunter Roger Patterson came into town
saying he'd just captured his elusive quarry on film, the much-debated grainy
footage that shows a shaggy ape-like creature walking. ``I really personally
think he absolutely did see Bigfoot,'' says Hodgson, recounting the story,
country fashion, in a laid-back drawl. ``I've had my doubts at times but
I just don't see anything else really. I just don't think he faked it.''
The scientific community hasn't exactly embraced the concept of Bigfoot.
But that hasn't quenched amateur enthusiasm.

Sightings have been reported all over, although the Pacific Northwest is
a favorite. This July, explorer J. Richard Greenwell will lead his fourth
annual Bigfoot expedition into the forests of Northern California. Greenwell
is a research associate with the International Wildlife Museum and secretary
of the Tucson-based International Society of Cryptozoology, a society dedicated
to the scientific evaluation of evidence for
``unverified animals.'' His first and third trips turned up some strange
prints, weird howls and mysterious nighttime visitors who sneaked food; the
second year's outing was a month of ``absolutely nothing.'' ``A lot of scientists
think the thing cannot exist, it's impossible so why waste time even testing
the hypothesis. ``In real science ... you start off with, 'Let's examine
the evidence.''' Greenwell says. ``If you start off by saying it's
impossible, then what you're doing is you're taking the short-cut.'' Greenwell
thinks the Willow Creek exhibit is ``fairly well done. It's not like the
Smithsonian, of course, but for the resources they had I think they put a
lot of thought into it.''

The bulk of the memorabilia was willed to the museum by Bigfoot enthusiast
Bob Titmus, on condition it be put in a worthy setting. Town boosters, looking
for something to replace the dwindling logging industry, went to work, getting
$9,000 in federal grants, stirring up chili cook-offs and putting sweat equity
into a new, two-story addition. The main part of the Willow Creek-China Flat
(the latter is the town's original name) Museum consists of a lovingly tended
collection of regional artifacts -- from antique baby booties to gold mining
mementos. The Bigfoot room is dominated by casts of -- you guessed it --
big feet along with the stories and pictures of the people who found them.
There's also a fun case filled with Bigfoot toys and books. The exhibit,
which is free although donations are accepted, is attracting ``all kinds,''
says Hodgson, who serves as one of the volunteer guides. ``Some of them are
really the person who takes it up on the weekend and there are people that
are really sincere, down to looking for anything they can find.''

Drive into Willow Creek and it's not hard to tell you're in Bigfoot country.
You can snack on a Bigfoot burger and play a round or two at the Bigfoot
Golf & Country Club. You can even take a
spin on the Bigfoot Byway, a scenic stretch of road that ends in Willow Creek.
Looming large in front of the museum is a two-story high statute of the local
legend, sculpted by chain saw from a fallen redwood. Sometimes Hodgson gets
a little good-natured chaffing about his conviction that the statue's real-life
counterpart is out
there somewhere. ``I tell Al, 'Well, I am from Missouri,''' -- the ``show-me
state'' -- says Wooden with a smile. Others aren't so sure. ``My position
is there's something -- there had to be something,'' says E.B. Duggan, who
with wife, Dallas, is a staunch museum supporter. ``People that I really
believe in have done the collecting of the evidence. I have to believe that
there's something out there. What it is I'm not really sure, but I know it
sure as heck isn't no bear.''

Eds: The Willow Creek-China Flat Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday-Sunday and holidays through the first week of October.

BELIEVER: Salem native Matthew Johnson was hiking July 1 at Oregon Caves
National Monument with his wife, Rochelle, and children Hannah, 7, Micah,
4, and Levi, 9, when he saw what he reported to be Bigfoot. Johnson hopes
his discussion will give legitimacy to other sightings.

Hiker fights Bigfoot denial The Oregon psychologist stands by his report
that he saw the huge creature. ALAN GUSTAFSON, Statesman Journal Matthew
Johnson confirms what Bigfoot believers have long said about the legendary
beast: It stinks. It was musky and rotten, Johnson said. It
was putrid. Besides having terrible body odor, Bigfoot is very large,
hairy and frightening, according to his account. How large? Im
6-foot-9. Im 280 pounds. Size 16 feet, Johnson said. This
thing made me look small. Johnson, a 38-year-old clinical psychologist
who lives in Grants Pass, rattles off Bigfoots characteristics with
an air of certainty. As he tells it, he recently got close enough to smell,
hear and see the Pacific Northwests fabled apelike creature, also known
as Sasquatch. Johnson, a former Salem resident, said the close encounter
occurred July 1 while he was hiking with his family near the Oregon Caves
National Monument. Since then, hes described the incident to dozens
of newspaper and television reporters.

Though stung by lighthearted treatment of his story by certain television
stations, Johnson said Friday that hes not backing down. In fact, he
talks about waging a campaign to counter the ongoing denial in our
society that Bigfoot exists. Im a shrink. Im not
looney tunes, he said. I do parenting workshops, mental health
workshops. I love public education. Its a passion of mine. Now, weve
had this encounter, so how can I not make this an issue of public education?
To me, its not a risk if I tell the truth, and I am telling the truth.
I saw Bigfoot. There is no official confirmation of his story. Rangers
who responded to Johnsons reported Bigfoot sighting found nothing unusual
when they checked the area, monument Superintendent Craig Akerman said. I
have spoken with Dr. Johnson, and he seems to be a very credible person,
but thats the only assessment I can make, Akerman said. I
cannot either confirm or refute his story because I was not there.
Johnson said his brush with Bigfoot happened after he toured the Oregon Caves
with his wife, Rochelle, and their three children, ages 9, 7 and 4. The family
was hiking on one of the monuments backwoods trails when they began
to hear
strange, guttural sounds in the distance. I was a resident of Alaska
for 20 years, Johnson said. Weve done a lot of outdoor
activities. Hiking, camping, fishing, hunting. Ive come across grizzly
bear, black bear, moose, caribou. Ive never heard anything like
that. Family members kept hearing the same pattern of sounds 
whuh, whuh, whuh, whuh  as they continued along the trail
for about 10 minutes, Johnson said. He then hiked a short distance by himself
and went behind some trees to relieve himself.

Johnson said he was squatting in the woods when he spotted the creature standing
upright about 60 feet away. I turned my head quickly, and I saw this
very tall, dark, hairy animal walk from behind one tree and over to another
tree, he said. The creature was watching his wife and children, Johnson
said. Terrified, he ran back to his family and hustled them away from the
area. I didnt immediately tell them what I saw, Johnson
said. I didnt want to freak my kids out. I didnt want to
freak my wife out. When the family stopped along the trail for a water
break, Johnson confided in his wife. I said, Youre not
going to believe this, but I saw Bigfoot. She said, I believe
you. Bigfoot researchers, accompanied by a park ranger, later
retraced the familys path along the monuments Big Tree Trail.
Johnson said they found a large impression in the ground. He
termed it a partial footprint. But Akerman said the finding proved nothing.
I wouldnt call it a footprint, simply a disturbance in the
soil, Akerman said. The woods are full of disturbances. They
can be caused by other hikers. They can be caused by rolling rocks. They
can be caused by a tree branch falling. Or it can be caused by a large animal.
I would be going out on a limb to speculate unless we had an identifiable
track, which we did
not have. Johnson said he was not discouraged by the analysis given
by the monuments top official. The park is understandably saying
the evidence is inconclusive, he said. But I know what the heck
I saw. I also know that that footprint makes my size 16 shoe look pretty
small. Since going public, Johnson said hes been contacted by
other people who tell of their own Bigfoot sightings. He wants to compile
those stories into a book that will feature his own experience. Meanwhile,
Johnson has more interviews scheduled on radio and television. Hes
far from weary of recounting his tale. No, no, no, Im not tired
of telling the story, he said. In fact, Im compelled to
tell the story.

BIGFOOT ON THE PROWL IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

On Friday, June 9, 2000, at approximately 7 a.m., the female witness was
driving to work on Route 30 between
Jeannette, Pa. (population 11,300) and Greensburg, Pa. (population 16,400)
four miles (6 kilometers) to the
southeast, when she spotted a Bigfoot. "The lady had left her home earlier
that morning and was enroute to her job. She had slowed down to look at a
car that was for sale and was looking towards the right side." "Seconds later,
her attention was drawn to a large dark manlike creature which was standing
on a back road surrounded by woods." "While the observation lasted only 15
to 20 seconds, the witness saw the creature cross the road and enter into
a nearby wooded area. The woman estimated that the creature stood about 6
to 7 feet (2 meters) tall and weighed approximately 300 to 400 pounds. The
witness states that she slammed on her brakes as soon as she saw the creature,
but it could no longer be seen."

When the witness (first) noticed the creature, it was approximately 300 feet
away. It was standing sideways in a 'hunched' position on the back road.
As the witness watched, the creature turned its head and looked towards the
highway, then took two or three long strides into the thick woods where it
was lost from sight. The woman stated
that the creature was covered with long back hair. While no facial features
could be determined, the head seemed somewhat oval in shape, and their was
very little neck apparent." Greensburg is located 30 miles (48 kilometers)
southest of Pittsburgh.

(Many thanks to Stan Gordon and Eric Altman, director of the Pennsylvania
Bigfoot Society for this report.)

A team of scientific investigators are preparing to spend a month in a remote
wilderness area of the U.S. Pacific Northwest in an attempt to obtain evidence
for the Sasquatch or Bigfoot, a supposed 7-8 foot-tall, bipedal primate.

The four-person team, headed by J. Richard Greenwell, secretary of the
International Society of Cryptozoology, based in Tucson, Arizona, will be
completely cut off from civilization as it uses special attractants to entice
one or more of the supposed primates to its camp. Previous expeditions sponsored
by the Society have produced track and ``bed'' finds, and loud, unidentified
vocalizations.

Cryptozoology is the scientific evaluation of evidence for unverified animals,
the Sasquatch being the most famous in North America. The term ``Sasquatch''
derives from an American Indian name, while ``Bigfoot'' originated with 1950's
California press accounts. The Sasquatch is dismissed by most scientists
as mere folkloric creations or purposeful fabrications, although over 1,500
eyewitness reports and two films of the supposed primate now exist. The new
field project will include a wide array of electronic equipment, including
thermal and seismic detectors, night-vision binoculars, state-of-the-art
photographic and video night-cameras, and a powerful broadcast system for
propagating gorilla calls down canyon walls into deep drainage systems. ``We're
not claiming the Sasquatch exists,'' states Greenwell, a mammalogist with
the International Wildlife Museum in Tucson. ``What we are saying is that
zoology has a duty to deal with these kinds of unresolved issues.

Although difficult, this particular problem can be resolved, given enough
resources. Simply ignoring the mounting evidence for 40 years is really not
consistent with either the spirit of scientific inquiry or the principles
of scientific methodology.'' The ultimate purpose of the project is to film
the supposed primates. ``We recognize,'' adds Greenwell, ``that film footage
in itself will never really constitute proof. What we are hoping
for is that other scientists, and funding agencies, will be swayed sufficiently
by any new evidence to support further investigation. That, in turn, could
lead to the ultimate proving that such a primate exists.''

Technical preparations and fundraising for a late-July departure are currently
underway.

CONTACT: J. Richard Greenwell of the International Society of Cryptozoology,
520-884-8369, iscz@azstarnet.com or Richard White of International Wildlife
Museum,
520-629-0100, ext. 252, rwhite@safariclub.org.

*Bigfoot Believed Living in China Yearlong trek yields traces of what some
say is undiscovered species Yuan Zhenxin, a paleoanthropologist, is convinced
that Bigfoot exists in central China and says that these plaster casts of
foot prints prove it.

By Los Angeles Times BEIJING --

Yuan Zhenxin keeps up his search for Bigfoot. Yuan is convinced that between
1,000 and 2,000 of the apelike
creatures roam the forests of central China, particularly the Shennongjia
Nature Reserve in Hubei province. Yuan dabbles in stories of abduction, including
those of two farmers who say they were kidnapped by Bigfoot but escaped to
tell the tale. Another person claimed to have spent two hours in conversation
with the creature, who reportedly gesticulated and mimicked bird sounds.
"They're very clever," said Yuan, a retired paleoanthropologist and member
of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Yuan describes Bigfoot as more than 6 1/2 feet tall, with reddish brown hair,
long limbs and a rather nasty case of body odor. In 1976-77, the government
sponsored a Bigfoot expedition to Shennongjia consisting of 100 people, including
army personnel. That trip and others yielded numerous samples of what Yuan
maintains are the hair, footprints and feces of an undiscovered species,
possibly descended from a giant ape whose fossilized teeth can still be found
in the region. "They're a cousin of humans," he said of Bigfoot, known in
Chinese as "wild man." But money for such study has dwindled, because fewer
and fewer of Yuan's fellow scientists are willing to approve funding without
more conclusive proof. Yuan and his supporters have been forced to dig into
their own pockets to keep three informal research centers operating. One
of Yuan's colleagues even divorced his wife, sold his home and moved
permanently to Shennongjia to carry on the work.

Deliveryman says he saw huge, hairy beast carrying a goat in Clark County
By Keith Edwards
Special to the Journal Sentinel
Last Updated: April 4, 2000

Granton - James Hughes was minding his own business, delivering the Black
River Shopper last week when he says he saw something he'll never forget
- an 8-foot-tall, two-legged, shaggy creature carrying a goat. Sasquatch?
Bigfoot? Yeti? Abominable Snowman? Or justa really tall hairy guy carrying
breakfast? Hughes isn't sure, and authorities are scratching their heads
over the reported sighting. "He was all covered with hair, a real dark gray
color, with some spots that looked a honey color. It was walking on two legs,
and it was mighty, mighty, big," Hughes said in a phone interview Tuesday.
"You better believe I was scared. That creature could have tipped that car
upside down and thrown it in the ditch. It was that big." Hughes filed a
report with the Clark County Sheriff's Department, and a deputy was dispatched
to the scene but couldn't find any big footprints, said Capt. Mark Cattanach.
"We have no goats reported missing, or any other types of small animals that
may meet that description," Cattanach said Tuesday. "I'm not sure what we
could do. I don't know that there's ever been any indication, at least that
I've been told, that there's any danger to the public."

Hughes, 57, was on his newspaper delivery route around 5:15 a.m. March 28
when he said he saw the creature at the side of the road, on County Highway
H about 1 1/2 miles from his rural Granton home. At first, he thought it
was a man, but as he got closer he said he realized it didn't look human
- about 8 feet tall, 500 pounds and hairy with an ape-like face. After getting
a closer look at the creature, which he said appeared to be carrying a goat
or small sheep in its hand, Hughes said he floored his gas pedal and quickly
drove away. "I didn't call it in (to the Sheriff's Department) until the
next day, because people would think I'm crazy. And I don't drink, I don't
use dope, and I was wide awake," Hughes said.

Cattanach said Hughes gave a very detailed description, but without tracks
or other evidence suggesting a creature was in the area, there's not much
the Sheriff's Department can do. He also said the reported Bigfoot sighting
is the talk of the community. "There's been a fair amount of joking around
with this," said Cattanach.

A day into the new millennium, villagers of Kampung Chennah, 28km from here,
don't seem to be too enthusiastic about the happenings around the world.
They are engrossed instead in talking about a recent claim of a sighting
of the elusive mawas (a big ape-like animal). The town is abuzz with the
news that the local "Bigfoot" was sighted by villager Liong Chong Shen, who
claims that he saw a couple of mawas when he was at his rubber small- holding
and durian orchard a week ago.

STRANGE ENCOUNTER...Liong relating to a reporter his `encounter' with the
two `mawas' at his durian orchard in Kampung Chennah a week ago. Kampung
Chennah is a small and remote town of 30 households where most of the villagers
are smallholders. Liong, 50, claimed that the incident occurred about noon
when he was working in the orchard. "Wild boars had been attacking my durian
saplings in the orchard, located about 11km from Kampung Chennah. I went
there to chase them away," he said yesterday. Liong said he was busy with
the durian saplings when he suddenly sensed a strong animal scent. "I then
heard a grunt near the young rubber trees. "My heart started pounding fast
when I saw two mawas standing near the rubber trees as I feared they would
attack me," he said. "I was about 10m away from the two mawas and I had a
clear view of them," he added. Liong said one was about 1.83m tall with long,
black and shiny hair all over its body, including the face. The other was
shorter, about 1.52m tall with long and brownish hair all over its body.
He said the two just stared at him and later walked away into the jungle.

A team of scientists from the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences
are on the hunt for the mythical animal in the remote forests of the
Shennongjia Nature Reserve in central Hubei, Xinhua reported.

Wang Fangcheng, head of the Committee for the Search for Rare Animals
and Plants, said that paleoanthropologists from the academy were
determined to find proof of the "Bigfoot".

"After repeated frustrations in previous searches, many people have
become disappointed in finding Bigfoot, however, a few scientists
believe the possibility exists that such an animal is still there,"
Wang said.

A team of scientists, reporters and local officials entered Shennongjia
in October this year after receiving reports of sightings of the animal
from a hunter in August.

According to the hunter, the animal was 2.5 meters tall, covered with
long, red hair, and moved very fast.

The scientists have discovered 40-cm-long footprints, brown hair and
chewed corn cobs at the spot where the hunter said he encountered the
strange beast.

After examining the evidence, Yuan Zhenxin, an established
paleoanthropologist from the academy, ruled out theories that the
mystery
animal was in fact a bear.

"There are abundant forests, food and water in the Shennongjia
Natural Reserve which have a warm climate that quite suits the Wild
Man," Yuan said. Scientists have unearthed hundreds of fossilised
teeth of an extinct giant ape in the area, proving that Shennongjia was
a home to big primates, Xinhua reported.

Some scientists have speculated that the "Bigfoot" might be a
descendent of one of the giant apes, Xinhua said.

Hundreds of local people have reported Bigfoot sightings over the past
decades.

China has organized several high-profile searches for the unidentified
animal in recent years, but no conclusive evidence was obtained during
the hunts.

China's COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH INTO STRANGE AND RARE ANIMALS is
preparing to launch a high-tech search for China's version of "Big
Foot." Residents in Hubei Province have reported 114 sightings and
collected hair and footprints from the Chinese Big Foot during the past 40
years. China's Big Foot has also been popularized by "The Wild Man
From China," a documentary shown on American Public Television.

While earlier searches this summer by the COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH
INTO STRANGE AND RARE ANIMALS turned up nothing, now they plan to launch
balloons equipped with infrared-sensing instruments 2,000 feet above the
forest. Wang Fangchen, the leader of China's search team told reporters,
"Any activities conducted by large-bodied mammals would be recorded
by the apparatus."

Source: Earthweek, August 18, 1995 --DS

Honey
Island Swamp Monster cast of footprint.

"The Honey Island
Swamp Monster" which has been reported to have been seen in the Southeast
swampareas of Louisiana. Near the
town of Covington Louisiana, just above New Orleans.

The outside world learned about Louisiana's Honey Island Swamp Monster
in 1974 when two hunters emerged from a remote area of backwater sloughs
with plaster casts of "unusual tracks." The men claimed they discovered the
footprints near a wild boar that lay with its throat gashed. They also stated
that over a decade earlier, in 1963, they had seen similar tracks after
encountering an awesome creature. They described it as standing seven feet
tall, being covered with grayish hair, and having large amber-colored eyes.
However, the monster had promptly run away and an afternoon rainstorm had
obliterated its tracks, the men said.

The hunters were Harlan E. Ford and his friend Billy Mills, both of whom
worked as air-traffic controllers. Ford told his story on an episode of the
1970s television series In Search of . . . . According to his
granddaughter, Dana Holyfield (1999a, 11):

Harlan Ford continued to search for the monster until his death in 1980.
Dana recalls how he once took a goat into the swamp to use as bait, hoping
to lure the creature to a tree blind where Ford waited-uneventfully, as it
happened-with gun and camera. He did supposedly find several, different-sized
tracks on one hunting trip. He also claimed to have seen the monster on one
other occasion, during a fishing trip with Mills and some of their friends
from work. One of the men reportedly then went searching for the creature
with a rifle and fired two shots at it before returning to tell his story
to the others around the campfire (Holyfield 1999a, 10-15).

The most famous of the
Southern Big Foot Creatures is the "Fouke Monster", aka "Boggy Creek
Monster". This creature has been reported around Fouke, Arkansas.
A small town in the Southwest corner of Arkansas, just a short distance from
Louisiana and Texas state lines. It is best known from the movie created
around it's existence, "The Legend of Boggy Creek".

RODNEY BOWERS ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE FOUKE
-- The Fouke monster, a legendary bigfoot look-alike, still stalks the lowlands
of Miller County, according to local residents. "There were 40-some sightings
last year," said Rickie Roberts, Fouke's unofficial monster spokesman.
"There were 22 sightings in one day. ... There's even one guy who swears
there's a family [of monsters] who live behind his house."

Roberts, who owns the Monster Mart grocery
on U.S. 71, said the latest sighting came July 17 when four people purportedly
saw the creature walking along a dry creek bed about 5 miles south of town.
Sightings of the Fouke monster have been reported since the 1940s, according
to newspaper articles. In all that time, no one has photographed the creature
or captured it.

For a time, the only evidence of the creature
was a plaster cast of a 131/2-inch footprint taken from a local soybean field.
The cast was destroyed in a service station fire in the late 1970s, Roberts
said. "That was the only real proof you'd have around here" that the
monster exists, he said. Though scores of residents have reported seeing
the hairy creature, experts scoff at its existence. Frank Schamback, an
archaeologist at Southern Arkansas University at Magnolia who debunked the
footprint as a hoax in the 1970s, said he doesn't believe in the Fouke
monster.

"They like mystery," he said. "It's
just that. People like to have a mystery."

Residents would have proof by now if the
creature existed, Schamback said. "There are people down there with dogs
who would have run it down in two days" if it existed, he said. Toby
Giles, Miller County's chief sheriff's deputy, said there haven't been any
reported sightings in the past few years, but "we do [have one] every once
in a while." The sheriff's office used to receive a few reported sightings
when he joined the department about 14 years ago, Giles said. "But nothing
was ever confirmed," Giles said. "It's still a well-talked-about subject."
The town plays up its connection with the monster. Down the road from Monster
Mart, a visitor can poke his head through a hole in a metal silhouette and
have his photo taken as the monster.

Roberts, who sells monster T-shirts, caps
and bumper stickers at his store, said the long-armed creature has been described
as 6 to 9 feet tall with red, brown, black or black-gray hair covering its
body. Roberts said he has never seen the animal, which he speculates might
be a "swamp ape," and he wouldn't admit it if he had. "I wouldn't say a word,"
he said. "People'd think you're crazy." He has heard an eerie howl, possibly
from the monster, that almost defies description, Roberts said.

"I've heard it twice. It's a different sound.
I don't know what you would call it," he said. "It'd be a sound like a cross
between a cow bellow and a panther screaming." The monster has never harmed
anyone although it may have caused a few heart-pounding frights, Roberts
said. "This thing has never attacked anyone," he said. The Fouke monster
brought attention to the town in 1972. Film crews descended on Fouke that
year to make the Legend of Boggy
Creek and forever put the community on the map.

The town of 614 is listed on the Internet
as one of the top 10 places in the world to look for bigfoot, the name associated
with creatures similar to the Fouke monster, Roberts said. "We get people
in here every day" looking for the monster, he said. "We had a guy save his
money for two years to come down from Indiana this summer."

Roberts' wife, Beverly, said too many credible
people have seen what they described as the monster for her not to believe
it exists. "I've got family members who firmly believe they've seen it,"
she said, noting that they moved away shortly after the experience. "Whatever
it is, there is something." Tracy Nichols and Sue Page, who work at City
Hall, said they have heard scores of monster tales over the years.

Nichols, noting that the creature is generally
associated with "a bad odor," said a local man recently saw the monster twice,
"but he won't talk about. He's afraid of being ridiculed." Although uncertain
of her own beliefs, she said, "I've heard credible people come through here
who said they've seen it." Nichols admitted that the legend is
fun.

"We went hunting for it the weekend before
last," she said. Page, whose constable father appeared as himself in the
Legend of Boggy Creek, said, "I don't know if it's true or not." "We have
calls from way off [from people] wanting to know about it," she said. Fouke
resident Lavelle Brune said she thought she saw the monster recently.
"We saw it" while driving out of town, she said, but "we got to looking,
and it was just a bush."

This article was published on Tuesday, December
1, 1998Credit: Loren Coleman

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17 May 1995 Scientists disapprove of 'Bigfoot' reward
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http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/articles/obsesion.htm Publication: The Salt Lake Tribune Published: 08/06/95
Laugh Lines: Obsession With Bigfoot Takes Big Toll on Family Byline: By Roy
Teicher LOS ANGELES TIMES Elkin Haas returned home from work. It had been
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6, 1995 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Scientists are using a new DNA matching process
to determine whether tufts of hair,
recovered in the Blue Mountains of southeastern Washington state in August,could
belong to the beast...

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Pic was actually taken in Winters Bayou,Texas.
You can barely see a dark figure off to the left. Make of it what you will.
Photo of a Bigfoot that was sighted in the
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http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/HomePage.cbf.html Scientists to Search for Chinese quot;Bigfootquot;
Date: April 1995 BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese scientists are setting off on a
year long expedition to investigate reports of a
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The Texas Bigfoot Video Footage, an Investigation by:
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on a nice sunny day. LOCATION: San Jacinto County, Texa.; Sam Houston National
Forest. OBSERVED: The story goes that
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http://www.vpg.net/bigfoot.htm Conversations With Bigfoot Gordon Langely Ives Ph.D.
What follows is the first recorded contact with a Bigfoot (or, as they evidently
call themselves, a Priorian). . . A lovely chapbook with a recorded conversation
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BABY BIGFOOT TOLEDO, Wash. (Wireless Flash) #150; A construction tycoon in
Toledo, Washington, is offering $1 million to the first person who can bring
him a live baby Bigfoot. 79-year-old Ray Wallace has tracked Bigfoot for
more than 40 years...

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/photo.htm
Sycamore Flat Cground, California 1971 These three students from left to
right are: Brian Goldojarb, Richard Engels and Willie Roemerman.They are
shown here holding a cardboard reconstruction of the huge figure that pursued
them from their c-site;

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Sent to: bigfoot conference v1.93 Going on the assumption that no knowledge
is useless, and also risking that I may possibly offend some researchers,
I offer the following DID YOU KNOW items. These are little things that jumped
out at me ...

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/stories.htm
~ ENCOUNTERS AND SIGHTINGS ~ What you are about to read are actual letters
from people, mostly Californians, who have had encounters, sightings or weird
coincidences and have felt compelled to write their stories to this website.

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/bigfootcentral/
THIS IS BIGFOOT COUNTRY BIGFOOT (aka) SASQUATCH ----- Periodical reports
in forested wilds of North America have told of rare, manimal appearing forest
giants known as
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http://www.bigfootbiologist.org/ Welcome to the website of John Bindernagel I am a wildlife biologist who
is seriously studying the sasquatch in North America. My interest in this
animal began in 1963 when I was a third year student in wildlife management
at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. My field work began in
1975...

PROFESSOR: TRACK DOWN, KILL A SASQUATCH LOS ANGELES TIMES WALLA WALLA, Wash.
-- Gordon Krantz, anthropology professor at Washington State University,
has touched off something of a controversy in Bigfoot circles by openly
advocating the view that a specimen should be hunted down and killed...

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OHIO BIGFOOT RESEARCH AND STUDY GROUP SASQUATCH FIELD INVESTIGATION OF APRIL
14, 1995 by George Clappison In April 8, 1995 a trip to Eastern Ohio was
taken to investigate sasquatch sighting locations. We started out at 6 AM
from Peggy's house and arrived at Flushing...

Sasquatch Journal - Sequence: Prologue man moving shaggy the habitat knows
his photo the haberdasher plaster casts in Bluff Creek the question is no
longer there is another kind of forgetting quick arrest convict hope he...

May 28, 1996 Search for Sasquatch becomes a bear of a task By Maria Goodavage
MOUNT HOOD, Ore. - Vultures take to the sky, and in an instant, Peter Byrne
turns off the
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Hairy BipedsReports come from around the world of creatures who walk on two
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the bigfoot, the sasquatch, and the yeti (also called the abominable snowman).
The Abominable Snowman (Antonopulos) The Abominable Snowman...

http://members.ncats.net/gob/etiquette.html
GoB's Rules for proper Sasquatch-catching etiquette! Rule #1.Never wear
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Big Foot-Prints: A Scientific Inquiry into the Reality of Sasquatch
by Grover S. Krantz 1992 Dr. Grover Krantz has the distinction of being one
of the few scientists who accepts the existence of the legendary Bigfoot.

http://www.intergate.bc.ca/personal/alahoy/orvin.htm
Orvin - A Sasquatch Questions Answered This photo was taken in the hills
of Southern Oregon by myself during July, 1995. At the time I was with a
group and through the Instrument, Dr. Ki, instructions were given by a sasquatch
who calls himself Orvin to point my camera

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Ever thought about the legendary existence of Sasquatch or the Okanagon
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Bigfoot Memoirs: My Life With the Sasquatch book on personal contacts with
Bigfoot. - Stan Johnson is a life-long friend of the Sasquatch people and
has known them personally for years. He has traveled and visited with them.

Rutherford County Reports August 1987 Near J Percy Priest Lake; Witness watches
a Sasquatch cross the road in front of her car. Summer, 1987 Near Percy Priest
Lake and Walter Hill Community; Two witnesses see a 6 1/2 foot Sasquatch.

http://www.cactusventures.com/sasquery1.htm
Sasquatch Queries Question from our Readers We now have a Sasquatch Watch
Message Board where our readers can leave messages of general interest, queries,
reports, and any information they wish to provide to others who have similar
interests.

Was Beachcomber A Sasquatch? Whatever it was, it wasn't your average beachcomber.
Three Vancouver herring fishermen all saw what might be the latest sighting
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115 miles north of...

Marshall County Reports July, 1997; Man and his mother witness a Sasquatch
while walking in the woods. Bigfoot Field Researchers' Homepage Submit a
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Jackson County Reports 1988, Ten miles northwest of highway 140 in an area
called salt creek. Part of the Butte Falls water shed. Closest town is White
City Oregon; Two hunters find track way of a Sasquatch, then witness a partial
view Sasquatch as it runs away.

Lycoming County Reports August 3rd, 1997 Big Run Area, 1 mile up from Susquehanna
River 2 miles from River Road; Two hikers witness a Sasquatch while hiking
in the woods. Bigfoot Field Researchers'

Cook County Reports 1979, June; Teens witness large bipedal animal running
through the woods. 1979, Summer; Teens are chased by sasquatch in an area
of multiple events.

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is that a typo?) No, it's not. Many deny existance of Sasquatch, the Loch
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From Creature Chronicles #7 Autumn, 1984 TRAIL TRACKING Charles J. Wilhelm
Ron Schaffner Rarely does an investigator find a perfect print of the alleged
creature called
Sasquatch. This is to be expected because of all the things that could cause
the print to be distorted.

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In North America the name Bigfoot (Plural/Singular), or Sasquatch, brings
thoughts of some strange unknown monster wandering about in the wilderness
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Wasco County Reports February 1993, near The Dalles ; A couple travelling
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during an
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River.

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(From 1958) NEW 'SASQUATCH' FOUND - IT'S CALLED BIGFOOT EUREKA, Calif. (AP)
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covered in a
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Kootenai County Reports June, 1997; 5 miles North of Athol; Former Highway
patrol officer witnesses a Sasquatch cross the road behind him. Bigfoot Field
Researchers

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BOB TITMUS EULOGY July 1, 1997 Written by his neighbor and good friend, John
Green Bob Titmus, a key figure in Sasquatch/Bigfoot investigation for almost
40 years, died at Chilliwack, British Columbia, on July 1st, following a
heart attack suffered a few days before at his home in Harrison Hot

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Cloverdale, California As a truck driver for a major oil company, I make
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a regular route. I can tell you that in 16 years of driving in that area,
I have seen Sasquatch cross the highway twice.

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HERALD AND NEWS Klamath Falls,Oregon, Thursday, Jan. 8, 1998 Search for
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claimed there were territorial Sasquatches in this particular area. Bigfoot
Field Researchers' Homepage

Yakima County Reports September 20, 1998, Yakima County, Washington; foul
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Contra Costa Times, California October, 1994 PUBLISHER HOPES BOOK WILL ENCOURAGE
SASQUATCH REPORTS Bigfoot rules Tom Morris' life. Yes, that Bigfoot. As in
Sasquatch. Morris has never seen the big guy, but he did find some dung that
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OHIO BIGFOOT RESEARCH AND STUDY GROUP The Ohio Bigfoot Research and Study
Group is an organization dedicated to the study of Sasquatch in
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all members are volunteers.

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Sasquatch Queries We now have a Sasquatch Watch Message Board where our readers
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they wish to provide to others who have similar interests.

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Hillhouse Investigations, Inc. Bigfoot / Sasquatch / Yeti A powerfully foul
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caught in the bark of a tree; A huge footprint on the bank of an Oregon river.
All are pieces in a one-thousand year old puzzle that still lies...

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The Hairy Hominid Archives This list of articles and news reports will really
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Michigan Bigfoot The Bigfoot and Thomas A historical bigfoot account. A BC
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Sasquatch...The Mounting Evidence Is Bigfoot Really An Ohio Resident? Here's
A New Documentary Which May Prove That It Is!! { The painting above was created
by an actual eyewitness of a sighting near Sharon, Ohio on July 2'nd, 1984.
She and her three young children observed the creature...

For years people have heard rumours of a giant manlike beast that lives in
the north woods. He has been known by many names: Seatavik, Saskaheevis,
D'sonaqua, Bigfoot, ...

http://www.intergate.bc.ca/personal/alahoy/orvin.htm
Orvin - A Sasquatch Questions Answered This photo was taken in the hills
of Southern Oregon by myself during July, 1995.; At the time I was with a
group and through the Instrument, Dr. Ki, instructions were given by a sasquatch
who calls himself Orvin to point my camera in the area of the...

Geographic Database of Bigfoot/Sasquatch Sightings Eyewitness reports from
across North America Subscribe to the BFRO mailing list Newest additions
to the geographic database Submit a Report, an Article, or Comments Here's
where you can provide input or your eyewitness report.

Density of US bigfoot-sasquatch sighting reports circa 1981, density of human
population circa 1980, and density of geographic place names associated with
bigfoot-like creatures circa 1996. Notice that neither the bigfoot-sasquatch
sighting reports nor the bigfoot-sasquatch geographic place names...

http://www.zoomnet.net/~sjlang/saschron.html
THE This page is dedicated to the study of one of the greatest mysteries
in the world....the Sasquatch. Also known as the Yeti, The Alma, The Skunk-ape,
the Chinese Wildman, and of course... Bigfoot. Seen in remote (and sometimes
not so remote) areas all over the globe. Here you'll find pictures...

http://www.rense.com/ufo2/bigfootman.htm
SIGHTINGS ; Another Man Says He Was Bigfoot In 1967 Patterson Film By Linda
Ashton The Oregonian 2-1-99 ; YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - A Yakima man is claiming
he wore the fur suit in the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin home movie of a sasquatch
in northern California -- film...

http://ee.edmonds.wednet.edu/98EEWeb/Teachers/MrB/scripts/bestbookclub.htm
Best of the Sasquatch and YRC 1999 Nominated Books ESD Librarians' Best Books
Club - One great list with great activities!Readers Theater Scripts for all
the Best Books. Exciting dramas created by librarians of the ESD. Checklist
before reading scripts Annotated List of Best BooksAuthor Links...

http://www.angelfire.com/yt/yeticave/
You have wandered into YetiKid's Home Cave! Home ;middot Gallery ;middot
Display ;middot Links ;middot Guestbook ;middot Contact It starts! Feel free
to wander around all you like. The pics in the gallery are free for personal
use, but askLord Sasquatch if for some reason you want to put one on...

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/edwards.htm
Sasquatch and the Edward;#146;s Air Force Base Surveillance Written By Doug
Trapp The Sun dropped quickly behind the desert rock-piles revealing a deep
red glow to the western sky as Corey Rudolph and I made c at the east end
of Avenue J in Palmdale one spring night in 1977. We had been...

http://www.angelfire.com/ia/doobyhermit/
The Dooby Website OKAY, YOUR'E HERE! THE FIRST STEP YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.
NOW, IF YOU ARE AT ALL FAMILIAR WITH DOOBINESS, THEN YOU WILL GROW TO APPRECIATE
THIS SITE. I THINK IT WOULD BE COOL TO BE A HERMIT. I COULD LIVE IN SASQUATCH
TERRITORY AND THREATEN TO SHOOT ANYONE WHO CAME TOO CLOSE TO MY...

http://bigfootmovie.com/synopsis.htm
; ;; THE SASQUATCH HUNTERS is a mock-umentary, following a number of unusual
characters as they search for, and obsess over, Bigfoot. The film blends
satire with a genuine affection for characters who can be silly, sad, and
very human. Franklin Burns (DAVID RICHMOND), the filmmaker...

http://www.teleport.com/~caveman/steyehah.html
The IVBC Almas and Yeti Gallery The Almas drawings are from Asia, the Yeti
drawing is from Asia, and I think these beings are very similar if not the
same species as what we commonly call bigfoot or sasquatch in the Pacific
Northwest of North America. Almas (thanks to Silas Salmonberry) Almas 2...

http://home.fuse.net/rschaffner/
INDEPENDENT INFORMATION AND NEWS SERVICE CRYPTOZOOLOGY AND WILDLIFE PHENOMENA
Updated: February 15, 1999 Relevant News of Interest News from the Past Current
Investigations Articles from Past Issues About Creature Chronicles Commentary
and Critical Thinking Database of Alleged Bigfoot/Sasquatch...

http://www.moneymaker.org/BFRR/GDB/index.htm
This database is the most comprehensive online collection of bigfoot/sasquatch
sighting reports and articles. It is collectively maintained by various bigfoot
field researchers in the U.S. and Canada, and the entire online bigfoot research
community. Researcher e-mail addresses can be found in the...

http://www.hooked.net/~kylemi/bigfoot/legends.html
Bigfoot-Like Figures in North American Folklore and Tradition Bigfoot-like
characters abound in the folklore, legends, and oral history of Native American
tribes across North America. From the well known ;quot;Sasquatch;quot; of
the Coast Salish in the Pacific Northwest to the...

http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~gallo/sasquatch/
; official friends of the sasquatch society this is a web site for all you
sinners who would care to snare the non-bear he ain't no wookie gimme back
that cookie put him in a zoo,; just to see what he do but sasquatch gonna
get you sasquatch gonna get you ; join friends of the...

http://cgibin.erols.com/bdwilner/.../cryptozoo/
Sasquatch: The Evidence ; This is a scene from the controversial Patterson-Gimlin
film of a sasquatch, or bigfoot, taken in 1967 in California. Many critics
called the film a hoax despite the fact that leading special effects experts
were...

http://www.moneymaker.org/BFRR/GDB/CNTS/MN/SL/mn_sl001.htm
Report Submitted to the Western Bigfoot Society public reports page. Submitted
by Chris Machmer [Email address provided upon request to researchers] on
Mon Jan 15, 1996 Observed: Saw a sasquatch looking through our cabin door.
I was looking out at him/her. This happened when I was very young and...

http://www.iosphere.net/~twocats/sasquatch/sasqinfo.htm
Sasquatch information page The SASQUATCH Writers' Performance Series was
founded by Juan O'Neill, (613) 238-5911, who remains its director. Juan has
provided the following eloquent description of what constitutes the essence
of the SASQUATCH series... quot;Often, the artist is like a hairy beast...

http://www.ohwy.com/bc/s/sasquapp.htm
Sasquatch Provincial Park Though the park is named for the legendary
quot;Bigfoot,quot; visitors are more likely to see deer, squirrels and beaver.
Four attractive lakes and beautiful forests surrounded by mountains offer
a focus for cing, canoeing, nature study, swimming, fishing, photography
and...

http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/sasquatc.htm
Sasquatch Provincial Park This park was named after the legendary BIGFOOT
who is said to of roamed the area. It is also known for its four attractive
lakes and beautiful forests surrounded by magnificent mountains. Green Point
picnic area borders on Harrison...

http://www.nwmyst.com/nwmyst-bigfoot-0009.html
Larry Lund, Sasquatch Sleuth by Greg Long ;#151; February 1, 1997 I'm a tall
person, so I had to bend slightly as I entered Larry Lund's basement office
in his house in Vancouver, Washington. It wasn't just the low ceiling; it
was also the...

http://home.earthlink.net/~batsquatch/batsquatch.html
(is that a typo?) No, it's not. Many deny existance of Sasquatch, the Loch
Ness monster, and aliens trailing in Hale-Bopp's dust but documented proof
of Batsquatch's existance cannot be refuted. Artist;#146;s rendition based
on the following description: Pterodactyl-like creature with purple body...

http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/111/ape.html
Sian Hall reviews the South African traditions of man-like creatures Sasquatch,
Yeti, Bigfoot ... these are all familiar names for that legendary man-ape
that haunts the ancient mind and the remotest regions on this planet. Glimpses
of such a beast, mythical or real, can be found in a multitude of...

http://www.spiretech.com/~sas/whoami.htm
SASQUATCH Hello, my name is Ward. Sasquatch is my handle on IRC (Efnet).
I got my handle from my friend, Jim Mei, who calls me Sasquatch as my regular
name. I am 6' 4;quot;, 285 lbs and hairy from head to toe. My home channel
is #paradise!!! on Efnet, and you can find me there at various times...

http://www.thenetcat.com/andy/eyes/bigfoot.txt.html
Something is Out There - By Andrew M. Haworth 'Something is out there.' Bigfoot,
sasquatch or yeti, there are unexplained sightings of some kind of creature.
By: Andrew M. Haworth Date: 07/27/97 A little more than a week ago, the town
of Neeses could have been considered the model for a sleepy...

http://emerald.oz.net/veils/veilsv2n11/sasquatch.html
VEILS November 1, 1997 Volume 2, No. 11Return to Contents pageDay 83- How
the Sasquatch Legend Was Started;Provided by Patient #627Last saturday night
Clara and I went to a Sasqatch party. Clara, like me,has been genetically
altered to appear human so that we may fulfill ourmission of using...

http://ufobc.org/big1.htm
Abbotsford mill worker tells symposium he encountered a Sasquatch near Spuzzum.
The Vancouver Sun. Monday, June 9, 1997 Standing in front of a crowd of about
50, Mike McDonald explains that up until two weeks ago he didn't believe
in Bigfoot. That was, he says, before he...

http://www.rust.net/~mignash/cssasquatch.html
Sasquatch for Chions Real name: Dr. Walter Lankowski Other known aliases:
Box III. Occupation: Canadian government super agent. Current group affiliation:
Alpha Flight. Past group affiliations: Army of the Goddess. Major enemies:
The Great Beasts, The Master of the World. First appearence...

http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~btcarrol/skeptic/bigfoot.html
; Robert Todd Carroll ; SkepDic.com ;Bigfoot [a.k.a. Abomindable Snowman
of the Himalayas, Mapinguari (the Amazon), Sasquatch, Yowie (Australia) and
Yeti (Asia)] ;quot;There is a Yeti in the back of everyone's mind; only
the...

http://www.atlcom.net/~chris/Sasquatch.html
Sightings Of Sasquatch Sasquatch, the missing link or just another hoax?
A photo of Sasquatch, before his disappearance. ;;; While to many people
Sasquatch is only a legend, to The ;Ccedil;owGod, he is very real indeed.;
Sasquatch does not exist.; At least, he does not...

http://www.ufobc.org/athabasc.htm
ATHABASCA SASQUATCH SHIP The following account is taken from the Manchester
Guardian March 16 [year unknown]: - ;quot;According to a letter from a man
in Canada the Athabasca Indian Scouts of British Columbia have found a sasquatch
ship in the forest. ;A sasquatch ship...

http://www.accessv.com/~ehuang/sasquatch.html
; Saquatch quot;There must be someone who has an evil design.quot; Full Name
- Sasquatch Origin - Canada Height - 166 cm Race - Bigfoot Year of Birth
- 1903 Weight - 180 kg Story - The Bigfoot tribe had once wanted to become
earth's rulers.; They soon forgot though, after then began developing...

http://www.veils.com/veils/veilsv2n11/sasquatch.html
VEILS November 1, 1997 Volume 2, No. 11Return to Contents pageDay 83- How
the Sasquatch Legend Was Started;Provided by Patient #627Last saturday night
Clara and I went to a Sasqatch party. Clara, like me,has been genetically
altered to appear human so that we may fulfill ourmission of using...

http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/jpakin/index.html
The Georgia Sw Ape Research Center Welcome...to the web home of G.S.A.R.C.
Somewhere in the dense forests and sws of the United States an enigma is
alive and well. This enigma has been reported in many stories and known by
various names for centuries. Known as Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Skunk...

http://www.parascope.com/articles/0797/bigfoot.htm
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Bigfoot was described as quot;really fatquot; with
discolored teeth quot;like baby blocks.quot; The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot Shady
Sasquatch Sighting in South Carolina by D. Trull...

http://www.moneymaker.org/BFRR/GDB/CNTS/WA/TH/wa_th001.htm
Newspaper article : The Oregonian, May 27, 1981 ANTHROPOLOGIST SUMMONED TO
EXAMINE BIGFOOT TRACKS OLYMPIA (AP) - Thurston County sheriff's deputies
have summoned help in studying some mysterious tracks that may lead to another
Bigfoot hoax or perhaps the legendary Sasquatch. Deputies took...

http://www.bladecomputing.com/sasquatch/friends/code.htm
Friends of The Sasquatch Webring Fragment Code In order to become a part
of the Friends of The Sasquatch Webring, you must place the ring fragment
code on your page. Rules for the ring fragment placement are: 1) Do not change
the code without The Sasquatch's permission. If you get The Sasquatch...

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~bbradle/sasquatch.html
Sasquatch Who is Sasquatch? You may be wondering: quot;Who is Sasquatch?quot;
Or, maybe you've seen one to many episodes of Unsolved Mysteries and you
think you know exactly who Sasquatch is. Well, whatever you're thinking,
you are probably wrong. Sorry. Bottom line: I am Sasquatch. No, I am not
the...

http://st4.yahoo.net/skishop/kidssasquatch.html
Just for Kids, this is a lightweight, durable, easy to use shoe made special
for small feet and lighter loads up to 75 pounds. 6.5 x 17.5 inches. 1.6
lbs.Kids Sasquatch#5353Regular price: $79...

http://www.moneymaker.org/BFRR/GDB/CNTS/WA/GH/wa_gh008.htm
Submitted by FRED B on Thursday, February 25, 1999 DATE: We saw a Sasquatch
that came just outside of our c. LOCATION: North River area eight miles south
of Aberdeen washington, Grays Harbor County. OBSERVED: THIS TOOK PLACE, August,
23or 25, 1985. I had learnt of a report of a group traveling...

http://oberon.educ.sfu.ca/sasq/notes/ramble.htm
Sasquatch Journal - The Creative Process (supplemental) Automatic Writing
Follow the links below for an exle of how automatic or stream-of- consciousness
writing has given me many concrete ideas that make their way into the completed
poem. We can only hope that with this bit of typing going on...

http://members.xoom.com/sasqmoab/who.html
asquatch designs is a professional graphic design company based in Vancouver,
British Columbia. Sasquatch Designs recognizes the power of the Internet,
and strives to provide small to intermediate sized companies with an opportunity
to get established on the World Wide Web at a minimal cost. We...

http://ro.com/~jethridg/bigfoot.htm
It has had many names given to it, many stories told, and rare but unforgettable
sightings. Its name is Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman,
etc... It is the missing link, a perhaps living relic from another time.
A time long before civilization spread its grasp to include much of...

http://www.moneymaker.org/BFRR/GDB/CNTS/OR/or_ja.htm
Jackson County Reports; 1988,; Ten miles northwest of highway 140 in an area
called salt creek. Part of the Butte Falls water shed. Closest town is White
City Oregon;; Two hunters find track way of a Sasquatch, then witness a partial
view Sasquatch as it runs away. Bigfoot Field...

http://www.moneymaker.org/BFRR/GDB/CNTS/PA/pa_ly.htm
Lycoming County Reports; August 3rd, 1997 Big Run Area, 1 mile up from
Susquehanna River 2 miles from River Road; Two hikers witness a Sasquatch
while hiking in the woods. Bigfoot Field Researchers' Homepage Submit a report,
an article, or comments...

http://sterba.com/nightlive/sasquatch/patrick.html
Sasquatch, E.R. And Patrick Swayze - The REAL Story Where did Sasquatch come
from? What do they have to do with E.R. and Patrick Swayze. These questions
will all be answered to you if you read on! Once Upon A Time, there lived
three public access TV show hosts. Their names were Hansel-Ed, Gretel...

http://www.comox.island.net/~johnb/
Welcome to the website of John Bindernagel I am a wildlife biologist who
is seriously studying the sasquatch in North America. My interest in this
animal began in 1963 when I was a third year student in wildlife management
at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. My field work began in
1975...

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/HomePage.byrne.html
Date: Sunday, July 2, 1995 Source: By Bill Donahue, Special to the Chicago
Tribune. Section: TEMPO Copyright Chicago Tribune ON THE TRAIL OF BIGFOOT
PETER BYRNE IS TRYING TO MAKE HIS LIFELONG DREAM COME TRUE: HE WANTS TO FIND
SASQUATCH You feel, the moment you enter Peter Byrne's home...

http://home.fuse.net/rschaffner/TRACK.HTM
From Creature Chronicles #7 Autumn, 1984 TRAIL TRACKING Charles J. Wilhelm
; Ron Schaffner Rarely does an investigator find a perfect print of the alleged
creature called Sasquatch. This is to be expected because of all the things
that could cause the print to be distorted. Specifically, the...

http://www.mcsi.net/alahoy/memoirs2.htm
Bigfoot Memoirs: My Life With the Sasquatch to Order the Book INTRODUCTION
By Richard Schroeder quot;Stan Johnson is an inspiring speaker, teacher and
healer. His new book relates his heartwarming experiences of meeting not
only the Sasquatch people, but also the star people, who are our friends
as...

http://www.iosphere.net/~twocats/sasquatch/links.htm
Sasquatch Literary Links page This page is a collection of literary information
and resources on the Web (comments in parentheses). NEW: misquote ink, A
CANADIAN LITERARY LABEL The music-poetry group SugarBeat Council for the
Arts in Ottawa The Elgin...

http://www.bladecomputing.com/sasquatch/hub.htm
The Hub Welcome to The Sasquatch's Domain. You have reached The Hub, which
is basically the table of contents. From here, I have links to the rest of
my web site. Enjoy! News - Here's what's happenin' with the site and my life.
Major Sections Minor Sections...

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/stories/emailed2.htm
Email from Texas: A white Sasquatch encounter When my father was about 18
or so (that would put the year at about 1938-39) He was about to join the
Navy. He and a few friends got together to go coon hunting one night. the
area where they went to coon hunt is south of Red Oak, Texas in the
bottom...

http://www.iosphere.net/~twocats/sasquatch/schedule.htm
Sasquatch literary event schedule This page is a listing of literary events
in and around the Ottawa area. If you know of an event that is not listed
here, please drop us an e-mail. Last update: April 12th, 1999. All events
are free unless otherwise specified. Click here for...

http://www.dzogchen.org/yeti/ytale1.html
A Yeti Tale: IntroductionThe essay belowwill be included in a forthcoming
book by Lama Surya Das.IntroductionThe legendary yeti, or Abominable Snowman,
isprobably the most well-known of Himalayan denizens-- even more famousthan
the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Reputed to be a huge, hairy ape-likecreature...

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dungeon/8591/main.html
YRA Homepage Yeti Research Association Welcome to the YRA homepage. In case
you didn't notice before, YRA stands for quot;Yeti Research Association.quot;
My partner and I are the heads of this administration. We are also experienced
yeti hunters. This site, and our association, is dedicated to the...

http://www.serve.com/shadows/yeti.htm
The Yeti Or the abominable snowman as it is commonly called has been sighted
in the Himalayan mountains for 100's of years. The creature is a tall manlike
creature coverd with shaggy hair. The people of Nepal see the creature regularly.
Accounts say it's height is approx. 6-8...

http://www.south-asia.com/yakti.html
Fill up our reservation form to book a room An Ideal Location Settled in
the very heart of Kathmandu - only 15 minutes from the airport - is the legendary
Yak and Yeti. A spectacular 'new' hotel that blends with an equally splendid
18th century palace, creating an unrivalled 20th century...

http://www.yeticycles.com/
VISUAL INTERACTION PRECAUTION! The Yeti web Site contains explicit photographs
of custom tubing and perfect welds. In addition, all models are under the
age of eighteen (in fact, they're all '98s). If you are opposed to this kind
of material, please refrain from entering...

http://www.angelfire.com/ma/yetipage/
In about four seconds you will be takin to the new yetipage.....enjoy. It's
actually the same but with a whole lot more page! Click on the flashing cack
to hear me and Rich blabber! SOUTH PARK SOUNDS ARE NOW HERE!!!!!!!!!!! GET
TO THEM THROUGH THE CONTENTS PAGE! THE INCREDIBLE PICTURE IS NOW THERE...

http://www.angelfire.com/yt/yeticave/
You have wandered into YetiKid's Home Cave! Home middot Gallery middot Display
middot Links middot Guestbook middot Contact It starts! Feel free to wander
around all you like. The pics in the gallery are free for personal use, but
askLord Sasquatch if for some reason you want to put one on...

http://outside.starwave.com:80/magazine/1298/9812yeti.html
Outside Magazine, December 1998 Yeti or Not The Great Reinhold Messner unmasks
his latest conquest By John Tayman The yeti, mythic kin to bigfoot, has puzzled
the west since 1832 when a British naturalist reported tales of a quot;hairy
ape-like creaturequot; loping nonchalantly across the Himalayan...

http://www.farhills.org/s/yeti/
Yeti's Rebellion Homepage is no longer up and running. Yeti has found that
bigger and better things have taken up all of his precious time. He apologizes
for any inconvenience that this may cause to anyone. Please remove all links
to this site. Notify the webmaster that had a link to this site to...

http://www.newweb.net/cgi-bin/yeticgi.pl
Yeti, The Abominable snowman. You said: Hi Yeti says: HI!, I'm Yeti, The
Abominable Snowman. Talk to me and I will talk to you. Scold me and I will
scold you. .

http://www.magmacom.com/~yeti
The Yeti Or the abominable snowman as it is commonly called has been sighted
in the Himalayan mountains for 100's of years. The creature is a tall manlike
creature coverd with shaggy hair. The people of Nepal see the creature regularly.
Accounts say it's height is approx. 6-8...

http://www.cactusventures.com/saswatch.htm
INTERMOUNTAIN RESEARCH CENTER PO Box 368 Chester, South Carolina 29706
yetiwatch@aol.com Sasquatch
Watch / Link to the rest of this site Please include the word quot;Sasquatchquot;
in your e-mail subject This site is dedicated to the collection and reporting
of Bigfoot...

http://www.dzogchen.org/yeti/ytale2.html
A Yeti Tale: A Lama Scalps a YetiThe story belowwill be included in a forthcoming
book by Lama Surya Das.A Lama Scalps a YetiLama Sangyay Dorje lived all alone
on thesnowy mountainside above Dingboche, near the world's highest peak,
MountEverest. He was a holy hermit, vowed to silence, who...

http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/97jul2/29jul-yetis.html
ELECTRONIC MAILGUARDIAN July 29, 1997 I've seen the Yeti, says climber A
dare-devil Italian climber says he's stood eye-to-eye with a Yeti in Pakistan
and photographed it. But the world can't see the pictures until he's finished
writing a book ... IAN TRAYNOR BOASTING OF close encounters...

http://www.yetitech.com/
Here's what we do (click on the bullets for details): Bottom line? Our prices
are low. Partly because of our low overhead. Mostly because that's the way
we want it. Click here and see for yourself. Build Custom PCs Consult and
train with Small to Mid-sized businesses, and...

http://www.ufomind.com/people/y/yeti/
The Day the Earth Stood Still (movie) An early alien contact movie -- a 1950s
classic EOBHAEMTEGHOSTLGAHKEBOEFSVENEVHAMAJAYABYOIUBSRUR? Search for keyword
e.g. Satan, Lazar, archeology, Vatican, Aurora, etc. Unofficial Link Page
For Yeti This is not an official home or personal page...

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http://www.eskimo.com/~mohundro/mush/yak/index.html
Kebrlool Kebrlool's name is a combination of the first two letters of each
of his player's characters on LegionMUSH and LegionOutpostMUSH: Kent Shakespeare,
Brin Londo, Loomis and Ol Gardan. Vital Statistics: Kebrlool's boyhood home,
Everest Occupation: Acting Yeti King/[Yeti Prince...

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Union/BTS/Scripts/Web/web5.html
THE WEB OF FEAR by MERVYN HAISMAN and HENRY LINCOLN EPISODE FIVE first broadcast
- March 2nd 1968 running time - 24mins 19secs 1. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR,
JAMIE, VICTORIA, ANNE, EVANS and the COLONEL watch in horror as two YETI
walk in. Following them is the gaunt figure of PROFESSOR TRAVERS. The...

http://www.teleport.com/~caveman/steyehah.html
The IVBC Almas and Yeti Gallery The Almas drawings are from Asia, the Yeti
drawing is from Asia, and I think these beings are very similar if not the
same species as what we commonly call bigfoot or sasquatch in the Pacific
Northwest of North America. Almas (thanks to Silas Salmonberry) Almas 2...

http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-ar7o.htm
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti et alia. General Pib's Collection of Cryptozoology
Resources, by Philip R. quot;Pibquot; Burns. I rate this the best Cryptozoology
resource. It has commentary and links to quot;Bigfoot (Sasquatch), Yeti,
and other unknown hominids; Cats; Chupacabra; General; Jersey...

http://www.knopfler.com/YetiNet.html
The history of The Yeti-Net by David Knopfler First published in the Starston
Gazette December 1993 Copyright David Knopfler 1993 . A long time ago, when
nets were still used for catching fish, there existed in California, a collection
of altruistic designers, musicians, craftsmen, poets, writers...

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Fortress/4806/ICEPALACE.HTML
ICE PALACE Shoot the bell to open the door which leads to several Yeti in
cages. The floor has several springboards which will catapult Lara towards
the ceiling.The small springboard over to the right will launch Lara
up to a ledge where you can obtain a medkit. Return to the floor and line
up...

http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/yeti.htm
Member of the Internet Link Exchange Yeti: Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
A tibetian fortress below the mountains were the Yeti is supposed to roam.
The Himalaya Mountains, the highest range on Earth, have been referred to
as the quot;roof of the world.quot; If that is so, there is a mystery
called...

http://sciplus.com/experiment/23466.html
Yeti Serum Bottle Terrific clear glass bottle, shaped like a standard serum
bottle, but much bigger. A whopping 57 mm dia x 104 mm tall, it has rounded
shoulders a 15 mm ID opening and (2) reinforcing lugs at the neck/shoulder
joint. Unfortunately we have no caps or stoppers, but a #5 Cork should...

http://www.gryphonheart.com/Creature_Pages/yeti.htm
Yeti, or Abominable Snowman The yeti are giant man-ape creatures which inhabit
the snow-line of the Himalayas. The Nepalese have documented three types
of yeti: the small yeh-teh, the large meh-teh and the giant dzu-teh. An elusive
creature, most evidence of its existence rests upon trails of its...

http://www.ecis.com/~rabrown/
Welcome to Yeti's Place! Inside you will find various links that I find useful,
fun, interesting, and/or important. You'll also find some of the Midi files
I've collected, a page dedicated to my Datsun 240z, some cool Disneyland
links, and perhaps someday an entrance to Mrs. Yeti's Place! You won't...

http://www.xmission.com/~theyeti/
The Yeti The Yeti is also known as the quot;Abominable Snowmanquot; of Nepal,
but the Park City quot;Yetiquot; is a snowboarder that usually rides all
but 5 weeks of a year. I go to any extreme to find snow even in and through
the summer. Accompanied by my love in life, Benny, we search and ride
anything...

http://south-asia.com/yakti.html
Fill up our reservation form to book a room An Ideal Location Settled in
the very heart of Kathmandu - only 15 minutes from the airport - is the legendary
Yak and Yeti. A spectacular 'new' hotel that blends with an equally splendid
18th century palace, creating an unrivalled 20th century...

http://www.knopfler.com/Yeti-Shed.html
Welcome to the Yeti Shed Random links Want to lucky dip through my bookmarks?
Click any button et bon voyage. . . Lucky dip Did it actually work? Good
grief. That's a surprise. Speaking of surprises . . . URL Roulette A must
for the dilettantely challenged the roulette...

http://www.alizanet.com/uri/yeti.htm
Frozen Cavern This large frozen cavern is almost entirely devoid of light.
The cave floor has a slick icy surface covering it, and several shattered
icicles lie about the edges, obviously fallen from above. Occasionally you
notice a bone or piece of flesh frozen inside the ice. Strange sounds...

http://tawny.bu.edu/JandJ/AsISeeIt/Commentaries/960422.html
April 22, 1996 Yet a Yeti (by Janet) It was abominable. Sighting in the U.S.
have spurred new interest in the rare and mysterious Bigfoot. But while American
film crews were chasing this giant furry mammal in California, John and I
were on a filming spree of our own. It began as he came crashing...

http://www.allproducts.com/sup006/yetishine/
Yeti Shine Air Freshener Co., Ltd. Our product line offers almost any style
of air freshener you'll need including liquids, gels, grains, aerosol or
natural substance sprays. Straight from the expertise of or product design
perfume development department, our plastic injection factory...

http://freespace.virgin.net/jc.watson/yeti.htm
The Yellin' Yeti Page YELLIN' YETI has a drum kit valued at #163;15, sports
a HUGE BEARD, and is constantly accompanied by a VENTRILOQUIST'S DUMMY named
REG. YELLIN' YETI and his HUGE BEARD narrowly missed being used in an EMBASSY
REGAL advertising caign. He is soon to publish his own CHIP AND...

http://www.charasee.on.ca/YETI.HTM
Diary of a Yeti by Brian J. Grieveson Paperback - 90 pages I.S.B.N. 0-919862-02-0
'Everest', the name has fascinated me since my childhood. I was in Asia five
years ago and intended to go to Nepal but it didn't happen. Fate ordained
otherwise, and I had always regretted it. It was therefore...

http://www.dzogchen.org/yeti/ytale4.html
A Yeti Tale: How to be Free of YetisThe story belowwill be included in a
forthcoming book by Lama Surya Das.How to be Free of YetisMany yetis used
to live on the slopesof Mount Everest, near Soulu Kumbu in eastern Nepal.
The Sherpas of thevillage of Namche Bazaar eventually grew accustomed to
them...

http://www.otherplane.com/am/amyeti.htm
OTHERPLANE BEYOND IMAGINATION Ancient Myths - Abominable Snowman/Yeti There
are numerous articles, sightings and accounts of the quot;Abominable
Snowman/Yeti.quot; This account of the quot;Abominable Snowman/Yetiquot;
parallels that of quot;Big Foot/Sasquatch.quot; Here are some interesting
statistics on the quot;Yeti...

http://www.dzogchen.org/yeti/ytale3.html
A Yeti Tale: Protection Against YetisThe story belowwill be included in a
forthcoming book by Lama Surya Das.Protection Against YetisOnce an aged Nepalese
man carried alarge sack of corn through the forest to a small abandoned mill,
to beground into meal. Darkness fell before his task was completed...

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/articles/yeti.htm
Beijing, China January 13, 1998: Associated Press Release - The Yeti, or
Abominable Snowman, is nothing more than an ordinary brown bear, according
to a Chinese wildlife expert who has been following the traces of the mysterious
creature for more than 10 years.Liu Wulin, head of the wildlife...

http://members.aol.com/ogd/jeffpage/yeti1.htm
What do the Himalayas and the Pacific North West have in Common?I am a serious
theatrical producer and have no time for this silliness. Answer:Large hairy
creatures with big feet. and Jeffrey Spolan...

http://members.aol.com/ogd/jeffpage/jsyeti.htm
Yeti School of Veterinary Medicine: Department of Yeti Cosmetology and Grooming
The Department of Yeti Cosmetology and Grooming is proud to have education
as it's number one concern. Our goal is to help the student be the best yeti
cosmetologist they can be. We also are actively involved with our...

http://www.go2net.org/adventure/fear.htm
2Net article: The Yeti of Lake Iliamna, Alaska This author describes his
personal encounter the legend of Yeti that some local fishermen believe inhabit
the...

http://www.globalserve.net/~oakleys/yeti.html
Waiting for the Yeti By Stuart T. Oakley he winds blew cold that winter.
Frost, born of some artistic god, left its mark in pretty patterns on window
panes. I hurried into my winter cloak as quickly as I could, struggling with
zippers and buttons that turned me into some kind of colourful mummy...

http://members.tripod.com/~DK8/Yeti-Net-Article.html
The history of The Yeti-Net by David Knopfler First published in the Starston
Gazette December 1993 Copyright David Knopfler 1993 . A long time ago, when
nets were still used for catching fish, there existed in California, a collection
of altruistic designers, musicians, craftsmen, poets, writers...

http://yakandyeti.com/home/conference/index.htm
Widely known for its mountains, exotic wildlife, religious sites and casinos,
Nepal is now actively promoting itself as an attractive conference destination.
To cater to the diverse requirements of conventions and conferences the Yak
Yeti offers venues housed in the elegant 19th Century neo...

http://vanbc.wimsey.com/~ayoung/yeticlaw.htm
The Yeti Claw When the ruckus subsided, one of the elders, wrinkled and stern
faced, shuffled his seat closer to the fire, closer to the conversation.
His position must have been one of relative respect, his movement was enough
to quiet the residual laughter and draw most eyes toward him. He took...

http://www.visitnepal.com/nepalinfo/yeti.htm
Nepal Yeti and Bigfoot Adventurous people have witnessed the existence of
the #145;Yeti#146;, the giant snowman with a thick hairy body the size of
a large gorilla. The Yeti's hands and feet consists of four fingers each.
About a dozen people have claimed that they saw the Yeti. Among those
who...

http://users.ids.net/~skogut/yeti.htm
Ask the YetiEven though he's not of our culture or even our species, he'll
be there struggling with the question of his own existence as well as any
of your questions about love, your future, career, etc. Go ahead, ask him
anything. You will be surprised just how smart he is!Ask the Yeti...

http://www.planetc.com/users/bigfoot/yeti.htm
Yeti The Yeti, taken from the name yeh-teh meaning in Sherpa
that thing, also called the Abominable snowman, has been a universal
belief to Tibetans for centuries. The Yeti is said to be the size of the
North American bigfoot, between six feet and eight feet tall, with long,
shaggy hair...

http://yeti.sbp.ri.cmu.edu/
yeti.sbp.ri.cmu.edu This is Dean Jackson's web server, located in the Carnegie
Mellon University Sensor Based Planning Laboratory. This page has had 573
hits. If you would like space on this server, ask me about it. Questions?
Mail
dkj@yeti.sbp.ri.cmu.edu
What exactly is a yeti? Organizations...

http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/~btcarrol/skeptic/bigfoot.html
Robert Todd Carroll SkepDic.com Abomindable Snowman of the Himalayas, Bigfoot,
Mapinguari (the Amazon), Sasquatch, Yowie (Australia) or Yeti (Asia) The
creature goes by many names but in northern California we call it
quot;Bigfoot...

http://www.crystalinks.com/big_foot.html
Crystalinks: Big Foot~~Sasquatch~~Yeti~~YoserBig Foot~~Sasquatch~~This picture,
of a supposed Big Foot, was taken in the late 1960's.A large ape-like looking
creature seems to have been seenin many parts of the planet. Different cultures
game theanimal different names and developed...

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/yetijindal/
Yeti Jindal THE COMMON MAN - 50 years of India THE COMMON MAN - 50 years
of India THE COMMON MAN -A series on 50 years of Indian Independence. FREEDOM!
This will be the most common refrain heard in India this year, even as we
enter the 50th year of our Independence. 50 years ago we had made an...

http://www.gfas.com/pilgrims/publications.html
Anthropology Children's Books Develoment Education Ethnography Festivals
Fiction Flora Folklore Guidebooks New Publications Language Poetry Proverbs
Refugees Religion Travel Women The Yeti Ordering Pilgrims Book House Publications
New Publications CHILDREN'S BOOKS...
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/HomePage.yeti.html
This article was taken from issue 67 of the quot;Fortean Timesquot;. Copyright
is retained by Fortean Times please don't reproduce and redistribute. IN
SEARCH OF THE YETI quot;Boom boom.quot; Not Basil Brush's catchphrase, but
the call of a less unlikely sounding animal, the alma or almasty of the
Caucasus...

http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf051/
Science Frontiers #51MAY-JUN 1987 Archaeology WHEN WERE THE AMERICAS PEOPLED?
HOW MANY MIGRATIONS WERE THERE? Astronomy SUPERNOVA PROBLEMS WERE TITIUS
AND BODE RIGHT? A LARGER SUN DURING THE MAUNDER MINIMUM Biology FIRST YETI
PHOTOS? GIANT FISH REPORTED IN CHINA THE MITE POCKETS OF LIZARDS...

http://www.planetc.com/users/bigfoot/gallery/fttgalry.htm
The Bigfoot Footprint Gallery (You may click on some images to view a larger
version of the image) Photo Taken in 1951 by Eric Shipton, In Nepal (Yeti
track) A recreation of the Eric Shipton track, created by a craftsman in
Nepal. Taken in NE Washington State...

http://www.bena.com/nepaltrek/photos/ncyphoto.html
The story of the physician Yuthok Yonan Gonpo being invited by the YetiWhen
Yuthok was riding on the way to see a patient, at the footof a snow mountain,
a female Yeti with a wishbone stuck inher throat was near death. The moment
the male Yeti perceived thephysician coming along the road he went up...

http://www.diamondway-buddhism.org/fun/fun-tim.htm
Comics in Buddhism Tim in Tibet Story of a boy and a dog searching for a
crashed aircraft in Tibet. They visit with a monastery and meet the Yeti.
Available in several languages. Hergeacute;e: Tim in Tibet CARLSEN VERLAG
Reinbek bei Hamburg 19679 ISBN 3-551-01509-0 for the German Edition...

http://www.cs.uit.no/Music/ViewAlb?alb_id=6054
Youthtribe poems of a bad boy Label:yeti-spirits Releaseyear:1994
Style:hardcore/ska/punk Tracks: salt on open scars but within dénouement
...and once again a bough so small maelstrome i d used to wait poems of a
bad boy try burning friendship wasted mind

http://tawny.bu.edu/JandJ/AsISeeIt/AsISeeIt.html
Old England A Tourist Attraction Old Growth The Road to Aberdeen Sitting
Ducks Hope As I Can't See It I Was Born and Raised Here Fiji Was Hard to
Swallow Crap Shoot The Koala Bear Population Explosion Fire Drill Revisting
the Toilet Follow Me Through a Day in Ubud Yet a Yeti (by Janet) America...

http://www.visitorinfo.com/video/mystery.htm
Ancient Mysteries Video Series Ark of the Covenant This real-life search
for the lost ark uncovers new answers to its possIble whereabouts. Item number
#6593 $19.98 Bigfoot Does Yeti exist? Is Sasquatch just a figment of our
imagination? JoTh the investigation into the woOds' most scrutThized...

http://zetatalk.com/poleshft/p45.htm
ZetaTalk: Yeti The Abominable Snowman, known as Yeti by the locals, is simply
a variation on the Bigfoot form. Just as man, migrating, has evolved to fit
his environment, so the Yeti adjusted to the climate when it changed after
a pole shift. White fur increases the survival in snowy surroundings...

http://www.unclebear.com/subgenius/index.html
NOW IS THE TIME TO SCHIZM!!! If something as important as the details of
X-DAY can be misinterpreted, what OTHER falsehoods are being foisted upon
yetisyn by the nefarious Rev. Stang and his Subgenius Foundation? On July
5th, 1998, at 7am, the saucers of the Xists did not appear to the faithful
as...

http://www.vorum.com/yeti.htm
Vorum Research CorporationCANFIT-PLUS#153; Yeti#153; 3D Foot Scanner Scan
3-D foot shapes accurately in just seconds with the CANFIT-PLUS#153; Yeti#153
3-D Foot Scanner. The CANFIT-PLUS#153; Yeti#153; 3-D Foot Scanner is an
opto-electric imaging device specifically designed to work with the...

http://www.cruzio.com/~cscp/bignews.htm
WBS Recent Stories in the News Sponsored and Maintained by the (IVBC) Internet
Virtual Bigfoot Conference quot;The alleged habitat of the famed Yeti, or
Abominable Snowman, will become a major tourist attraction in China next
year, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The government...

http://www.motor-city.com/tomb/vrml.html
T.O.M.B. Virtual Reality The V.R . Box you will need SGI's COSMO to view
these worlds Yeti world is a place of mystical ancient prophets and pharaohs.
A stage of life for you to treasure. yeti An island in the sky spanning 20
miles. Search for the objects hidden in the mountains...

http://www2.zemris.fer.hr/~yeti/http://www.riven.donet.com/yetimezera/
CLICK TO ENTER This product is meant for educational purposes only. Any
resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. Void
where prohibited. Some assembly required. List each check separately by bank
number. Batteries not included. Contents may settle during...

http://members.tripod.com/~family_photos/yeti.html
Yeti deanimated in 1993 and is currently in cryonic suspension at the Cryonics
Institute in Detroit. This was taken when Yeti was 10, about 1987 This was
taken in 1993. This was taken not long before Yeti's deanimation in 1993...

http://www.cognisoft.co.uk/brochure/yeti/yeti.htm
YETI is CogniSoft's market leading Training Administration package. YETI
for Windows is a Complete Trainee Information Management System available
for both Training Managers/Providers and Training Enterprise Councils. A
Report Generator with More Power than You Could Imagine ! All...

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gac/goals.html
The Future Here's my current idea of what the rest of my life looks like.
This is of course excluding the small but non-zero probabilities of getting
abducted by aliens, getting hit by a meteor, or founding a new major religion.
Spring 1996: Finish my work on Myth/Yeti Summer 1996: Working for...

http://www.tranquility-base.com/magic/cards/Red/C_717.html
Karplusan YetiKarplusan YetiSummon Yeti: Karplusan Yeti deals an amount of
damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals an amount
of damage equal to its power to Karplusan Yeti.3/3Banned from Standard (Type
2) Environment playComminality in Ice Age release...

http://amrvideo.com/new/SOE1/SOE-12381.htm
Ancient Mysteries Series - Search for the Abominable Snowman This Video Title
and 1,000's More Are Available At Discount Pricing From A M R ....Serving
Satisfied Customers ... July 96' In the towering peaks of the Himalayas,
he is known as Kang-mi, Temu and Yeti. To the Western World, he is...

http://www.the-strange.com/yeti.html
Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: Yeti or The
Abominable Snowman Yeti or The Abominable Snowman as he is better known,
is a creature or as many say, mythical creature that lives in and around
the Himalayan mountains. The reports of encounters with this tall...

http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~poems/poems/00174.html
From a Himalayan Expedition not Made by Wislawa Szymborska - 1957 Aha, so
these are Himalayas. Mountains racing to the moon. They start forever captured
against a sky that's suddenly rent. A desert of clouds transfixed. A thrust
into nothing. Echo - a white mute. Silence. Yeti, down here there's...

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Union/BTS/Scripts/Abominable/intro.html
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN Season 5, 1967; 6 episodes This six part story from
Season five introduced a new monster, the Yeti or Abominable Snowmen. Despite
only two appearances in Doctor Who, the Yeti have become established as one
of the more popular and enduring creatures in the series' history. The...

http://www.users.cloud9.net/~patrick/anomalist/obit.html
Obituary: Jimmy Stewart and the Yeti Actor Jimmy Stewart, who starred in
such classic films as quot;You Can't Take It With You,quot; quot;Mr. Smith
Goes To Washingtonquot; and quot;It's A Wonderful Life,quot; died on July
2, 1997. He was 89. Little known to the general public, Jimmy Stewart...

http://www.bonkworld.com/bonkravers.html
BONK RAVERS BONK: AN ODE quot; I may expect a visit from a yeti A wildebeest
is dropping by for tea But to the torment of my dog, A bulging eyed green
frog Is sitting like a Buddha in my Gua-ra-na tree! BONK, BONK, BONK, BONK
All the day lonk! I drink it, drink it, drink it...

http://village.cyberbrain.com/babyboy/story.htm
TombRaider: The story Lara Croft has just returned from a hunting trip in
the Himalayas where, having bagged a 12-foot tall yeti, she's itching for
a new challenge. While enjoying a little R R, she's contacted Jacqueline
Natla, a conniving businesswoman who convinces Lara to...

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~yeti/yetipoem.htm
This poem was written by one of my Stepdad's cubs a couple of years ago:
The Yeti The Yeti that I first espied, Was lug-eared, lank, and lean, His
oval head was brownish-red, His ape-like face obscene. His hairy head was
simply vile, It filled me full of fear. Completely...

http://www2.southwind.net/~thak/tripsofa/songs/yeti.txt
Yeti ----- broken treasure pure as gold a king with growing beard and thorns
a kingdom blows its mighty horns the righteous kill the heir to the throne
lily's pleasures valleys dig holes of darkness in the drink man reaches his
hand but thinks I don't want a quot;Son of Godquot;... chromasome machines
in...

http://www.yetitech.com/aboutus.html
The Birth of YetiOn September 15, 1997, after much careful consideration
and two-weeks notice, we decided we'd had enough of Workin' for the Man.
Not that the Man we were Workin' for was so terrible. But we craved the freedom
and extraordinary stress of self-employment. So we struck out on our own...

http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jpbarber/mud/yeti3.txt
Frozen Cavern This large frozen cavern is almost entirely devoid of light.
The cave floor has a slick icy surface covering it, and several shattered
icicles lie about the edges, obviously fallen from above. Occasionally you
notice a bone or piece of flesh frozen inside the ice. Strange sounds...

http://www.knopfler.com/Yeti-Net-Article.html
The history of The Yeti-Net by David Knopfler First published in the Starston
Gazette December 1993 Copyright David Knopfler 1993 . A long time ago, when
nets were still used for catching fish, there existed in California, a collection
of altruistic designers, musicians, craftsmen, poets, writers...

http://www.yeti.com.au/copy.html
Copyright The material within this website remains the property of Yeti Sightings
Pty Ltd. Unless otherwise stated, and apart from any use permitted under
the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without
prior...

http://www.yeti.com.au/noframe/nf_copy.html
Copyright The material within this website remains the property of Yeti Sightings
Pty Ltd. Unless otherwise stated, and apart from any use permitted under
the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without
prior...

http://www.users.interport.net/~bdodge/
Bill Dodge's Home Page Yes, folks, I finally have put together a little web
page for your personal enjoyment. This is my first attempt so bear with me.
It will eventually be a lot better than most pages, including the yeti's
...

http://redfrog.norconnect.no/poems/poemupd?id=00174
POEMS UPDATE PAGE poem's title poet's name Aha, so these are Himalayas. Mountains
racing to the moon. They start forever captured against a sky that#39;s suddenly
rent. A desert of clouds transfixed. A thrust into nothing. Echo - a white
mute. Silence. Yeti, down here there#39;s...

http://redfrog.norconnect.no/poems/poemupd?id=01920
POEMS UPDATE PAGE poem's title poet's name So these are the Himalayas. Mountains
racing to the moon. The moment of their start recorded on the startling,
ripped canvas of the sky. Holes punched in a desert of clouds. Thrust into
nothing. Echo - a white mute. Quiet. Yeti, down there we#39...

http://www.users.interport.net/~bdodge/index.html
Bill Dodge's Home Page Yes, folks, I finally have put together a little web
page for your personal enjoyment. This is my first attempt so bear with me.
It will eventually be a lot better than most pages, including the yeti's
...

http://www.unistork.simplenet.com/index.html
Okay guys. My mother's funeral was on Friday. It was dignified, ect. I don't
wanna bore you all with that stuff, so just click above and go to Yetimania
Online. I've added a log of Starchat vs. #Wrestling. Also, the OFFICIAL homepage
of Starchat #ICP should be ready very soon, as well as a semi...

http://pages.nyu.edu/~jbv201/yeti.html
The Minnesota Yeti of the National Fastbreak Basketball Association Latest
Team News Yeti off to a slow start in 1997 The Yeti are off to a slow start
this year. After playing five home games, they stand at a woeful 1-4 in the
Snow Palace -- due in large part to the fact that they were...

http://www.quantum-thoughts.demon.co.uk/hairball.htm
Yeti's not-so-unique corner of the Net General Site Guide PANTS! : This is
a load of quotes from the Star Wars trilogy that have been altered to include
the word quot;pantsquot;, it's funny and it at the other end of the pants
link, you might as well follow it and have a laugh, oh yeah before i forget,
if...

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Union/BTS/Scripts/Enemy/intro.html
THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD Season 5, 1967/68; 6 episodes Season Five has earned
the name quot;the Season of Monstersquot;, as it featured the established
Cybermen, and introduced the Ice Warriors, the Yeti, and of course the Weed
Creature. The Enemy of the World was the only story in the Season of Monsters
not...

http://www.gorp.com/legendary/nepfact.htm
Royal Nepal Spectacular rates include: Three nights accommodation in
the Yak Yeti Hotel in Kathmandu, including breakfast. Two nights
accommodation in the Shangri-la Village including breakfast and dinner.
Four nights accommodation in Ker Downey's Lodges, featuring: Solar
heated showers...

http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~astro/binstar/listserv.html
Variable Star Email Explosions NOVANET - This is used mainly by professional
astronomers for alerts and announcements of results. To subscribe, send a
request to Peter Hauschildt at Arizona State University
(yeti@asu.edu) who will send
information. To post a message for automatic distribution on...

http://www.italysoft.com/curios/yeti.htm
Abominable Snowman or Yeti by Pubblinet Switzerland Abominable Snowman or
Yeti, legendary wild man of the Himalayas. Reports of sightings have come
from Nepal (where the creature is known as Yeti) and from parts of China,
Siberia, and other areas in Asia. Sightings have also been reported in...

http://www.gamewatch.com/indigo/myth/forum/messages/880.html
If I had a yeti [ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Indigo's Myth Forum ]
[ FAQ ] Posted by Warlord on March 29, 1998 at 20:53:25: Well, I heard about
the new snow map, do you think bungie willaprove it? If they do, how will
we know when and where we can download it?Please answer-Warlord Follow...

http://www.btinternet.com/~andy.gilham/amonduul2/ad2yeti.htm
Yeti Yeti, a double album including one disc of improvisations, remains one
of Amon Duuml;uuml;l 2's greatest recordings.The CD version comprises the
entire original two-disc set, except that most releases have a cut version
of quot;Pale Galleryquot; - the Captain Trip release is believed to be...

http://www.india-access.com/travel/gangpg01.htm
Gangtok - In Sikkim, Land of the Yeti The capital of Sikkim, Gangtok, is
a garden state at the foot of the Kanchenjunga mountains which is rich in
thick green forests. It abounds in birds, butterflies, and 500 species of
orchids. Gangtok is literally the quot;lofty hillquot; set amidst the clouds
and mists...

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~yeti/index.htm
The Yeti Homepage Hi there, welcome to my homepage. You are visitor number
The yeti Homepage celebrates its 3500th birthday yeah!!!!! Quote of the week
: what shall we do with a drunken Medic.... My new mail address at uni is
ap60@le.ac.uk for anyone
who doesn't know it. Well this is it, the...

http://www.tranquility-base.com/magic/council/jun97/Finalist4456.html
The yeti/druid deck. Chris Foley This is the version of the deck as it was
submitted to the Council for consideration in the contest. The most current
version can be seen here Deck Information Deck Name: The yeti/druid deck.
Misc. (G/R/W): DCI Classic (Type 1) Legal, DCI Classic Restricted (Type
1...

http://www2.zemris.fer.hr/~yeti/intro.html
Intro quot;What can I find on this page?quot; Intro - This is it. This is
where you are. :) About Me - Here you'll find all you allways wanted to know
about me. Go right ahead. Profession - My occupation, place of work study.
Official like data for science...

http://www.awn.com/yeti/english/presentation.a.html
La Rosiegrave;re 1850 The place to be here, It's already quot;Europequot;!
A small village resort, facing south across the Olympic Valley of the
Tarentaise.La Rosiegrave;re has a marvellous view towards Val d'Isegrave;re,
Les Arcs, La Plagne, and is 26 km from Bourg St Maurice where the...

http://www.valley.ne.jp/~morisaki/yeti.htm
MYSTÆdRIOUS YETI By: Dr. Trilok Chandra Majpuria Published in: WELCOME
NEPAL INTERNATIONAL TOURISM MAGAZINE Inquisitive persons have a quench to
get answers of several questions about yeti, the strange animal which has
aroused interest and curiosity all over the world. Though it has not yet
been...

http://www.conknet.com/~D_king/
lt; The oldest active Quaker out there Site is best viewed with netscape
4.03 Site created and maintained by{LOL}quot;YETIquot; aka {LOL}LagCannon
...

http://www.wayfinder.com/bikesmiths/yeti.html
Yeti's racing heritage reads like the Who's Who of Professional Mountain
Biking, from the inaugural World Cross-Country Chion to countless professional
athletes who choose to race, train and play on their products. Yeti has remained
unwavering in their quest to provide the finest quality product...

http://www.yi.com/home/GerhardSebastian/index.htm
A big welcome to any user ! (except the Yeti, Helmut Hullen, Günni
Gravenreuth and people with a bad attitude !:) My Name is Sebastian Gerhard,
and the answer to all questions is either Jesus or 42...

http://www.cognisoft.co.uk/brochure/yetitec/eltec.htm
Use of YETI by ELTEC The following section has been written by ELTEC and
is included with their permission and without any modification by CogniSoft.
Use of YETI by ELTEC (East Lancashire TEC) #227; Copyright ELTEC - 16/02/98
The majority of our Training Providers use the YETI database...

http://www.cognisoft.co.uk/brochure/yetitec/introduction.htm
YETI for Training Enterprise Councils - Introduction CogniSoft CogniSoft
have been in existence for over 10 years. Since 1987 we have been heavily
involved in various Government Training Schemes for Youth and Adult Trainees.
YETI YETI for Windows is a completely new version of YETI, written with...

http://www.ancientprophecies.com/cloning.htmFree Excerpts and a Peek at Action-packed Illustrations! [Flash: TPR is
a finalist in The Writers Foundation's 1997 quot;America's Bestquot; award,
novels category. The yeti excerpt from it, converted to a short story, is
also a finalist in the short fiction competition!] Background: The
genetics...

http://web.globalserve.net/~oakleys/yeti.html
Waiting for the Yeti By Stuart T. Oakley he winds blew cold that winter.
Frost, born of some artistic god, left its mark in pretty patterns on window
panes. I hurried into my winter cloak as quickly as I could, struggling with
zippers and buttons that turned me into some kind of colourful mummy...

http://www.cybercomm.net/~appleo/maga/yeti_live_92.htmlRemote Control Yeti response to a negative review in The Rutgers Review
92/10/22 by Apple-O To the Editor: I am writing in response to a review in
this week's Arts section. Whoever wrote the review of the Remote Control
Yeti/Sponge/Kiaro Skuro...

http://www.sonic.net/~comix/anomalies/articles/ga00001a.htm
TheYeti, or quot;Abominable Snowmanquot; The Legend - Variations - Evidence
Theories - Chronology - Bibliography Evidence Theories The main evidence
of the Yeti and Alma's existence falls into three categories: footprints,
sightings, and scalps and hair. More unusual are the claims of actual
contact...

http://www.cognisoft.co.uk/brochure/yetitec/jointlydeveloped.htm
YETI for Training Enterprise Councils - Jointly Developed with Users.
CogniSoft, taking into account our users needs, has developed YETI over several
years. This is a continuous ongoing process whereby YETI is continually adapted
to take account of changing needs. There is a user group which is...

http://knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf057/sf057b10.htm
YETI EVIDENCE TOO HARD! In SF#51, we printed a news item about photographs
taken in the Himalayas by A.B. Wooldridge that were thought to show a Yeti.
The latest issue of Cryptozoology contains a letter from Wooldridge in which
he tells of his return, in 1987, to the site where the 1986 photos...

http://knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf051/sf051b06.htm
FIRST YETI PHOTOS? A.B. Wooldridge claims that he observed and photographed
a yeti in the Himalayas in March 1986. Travelling alone toward Hemkund, at
about 11,200 feet, in an area with steep wooded slopes, he encountered strange
10-inch tracks, which he duly photographed.

The Yeti, otherwise known as the Abominable Snowman, is thought
to live in the mountains of Nepal and Tibet. There are many tales of encounters
with yetis and there are many similarities between the descriptions of them
and those of Bigfoot in North America. Sherpas say that the yeti is...

The Yeti of Khumjung by Ivan Hughes Nir Kumar and I had been hiking together
for two weeks, today we were descending back down to the Sherpa capital of
Namche Bazaar for a day of rest at a reasonable altitude. My headaches were
now gone and I was finally finding it easier to breathe as the trail...

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/hallscience/X0064_TrueHist.3.html
In the years immediately preceding his death in 1919, M'Muh-town hinted at
a growing disillusionment with the way in which his compromise had worked.
In 1912 he wrote an article for Century magazine entitled quot;Is the Yeti
Having a Fair Chance?quot; In it he criticized the fact that more money...

The Yeti Memoirs: July 1997 29/6/97: We marched along the dirt track under
a mass of rucsacs in the steady drizzle that had become typical of our stay
in Chamonix over the previous 48 hours. Wed stepped off the coach two
days before after a 23 hour journey from London Victoria during which I
got...

The Abominable Snowmen by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln (6 episodes) The
Doctor attempts to return a lost holy ghanta to the Det-sen monastery in
1920s Tibet, to find the monastery under attack from the normally shy Yeti,
and the High Llama under control of an alien intelligence.

The Yeti: The Yeti was born in the snowy mountains of Mongolia. The Yeti's
were a laid back race of people. Who knew little in the ways of modern
technology. They did, however, know how to: eat Kraft dinner, sleep, climb
trees and disguise themselves as forest vegetation. The Yeti learned
music...